meddlesome

Example Sentences

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And as the tribunes who stir up the populace’s antipathy toward Coriolanus, William DeMeritt and Zuzanna Szadkowski are bland, seemingly unwilling to decide whether their characters are nefarious or just mildly meddlesome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

He could be meddlesome, a freelance diplomat who irked more than one administration.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023

The overall impression is of a world alive in a subversive and meddlesome manner, correlating with Conor’s anguished sense of powerlessness.

From Washington Post • May 30, 2022

There are ways this gift can go very wrong: if the graduate doesn’t buy in, or if the adult doing the giving becomes too meddlesome.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Mr. Curtain had transformed all those meddlesome people into his own private workforce, and they didn’t even realize it.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart