intermeddle

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Sir William advised that the only aim of intervention should be peace, and that “to interpose without the means or the intention to carry into effect a permanent pacification is not to intervene, but to intermeddle.”

From New York Times

Without credible peace negotiations, firing cruise missiles at Syria would be to intermeddle.

From New York Times

If it be not "a grand impertinence," an intrusion into matters with which no stranger has a right to intermeddle, it is at least taking a great liberty to thrust upon a man our opinion in censure of his own.

From Project Gutenberg

Some persons have especial need to consider this sin—they are tempted to play the part of Providence, to intermeddle where they ought to refrain.

From Project Gutenberg

Send a Minister to Congress," said I, "at the peace, a clever fellow, who understands himself, and will neither set us bad examples, nor intermeddle in our parties.

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