intermeddle
Example Sentences
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Is a statute less objection able which authorizes expenditure of Fed eral moneys to induce action in a field in which the United States has no power to intermeddle?
From Time Magazine Archive
"I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle."
From Time Magazine Archive
Intercede and interpose are used in a good sense; intermeddle always in a bad sense, and interfere frequently so.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
It was simply a reaffirmation of the fundamental maxims of the Jeffersonian policies:—"never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe—never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs."
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert
Peter was prone to intermeddle with matters beyond his sphere, and to manage other people’s affairs for them.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II by Dods, Marcus
