meddler

As to our adversaries, recall how divisiveness was fed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump’s hero and foreign meddler in our elections.

Terhune has been a stand-up comic for nearly two decades, but his doppelganger has lifted him to another plane, as if a mischievous meddler had suddenly muscled his way into the limelight.

Anya spun, searching for the little meddler.

That Scrooge’s quip nakedly riffs on John McClane’s famous send-off in “Die Hard” only adds to the feeling that “Violent Night” is essentially a remake of that earlier movie, with Santa as the surprise meddler who foils the bad guys’ plans.

He is seen by some as a meddler, achieving notoriety for sending handwritten messages to government ministers about political matters — messages known as “black spider” letters because of the messiness of his handwriting and the black ink of his pen.