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

Artificial intelligence can paint meddlesome monkeys, speak in the basso profundo of James Earl Jones and play a tune to suit a hall of mirrors.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

“I didn’t want Liz to be a meddlesome neighbor in someone’s life,” Miller says on a video call from her home office.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2023

Did I do the right thing, or was I being meddlesome?

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

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