meddling
IPA: mˈɛdʌɫɪŋ
noun
- unwanted interference
adjective
- That meddles.
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Examples of "meddling" in Sentences
- Gbagbo's camp rejects what it calls meddling by foreigner.
- He criticized the the United States for what he called meddling in Egyptian affairs.
- But, with a sly laugh, he notes he has some name recognition - due to what he calls meddling by "a faction in the government."
- The BBC adds: Iran has singled out Britain and the BBC in its widespread condemnation of what it calls meddling by foreign powers in its affairs.
- This is likely to provoke more anger from Hillary's major supporters, who have expressed fury at Dean for statements like this, which they characterize as meddling in the Dem primary.
- Gbagbo himself has said little in public since the vote, but his camp has been adamant in condemning what it calls meddling in its internal affairs and has shown no sign of giving in.
- On Nov. 3, Mr. Musharraf suspended the constitution and said he was imposing emergency rule because of an Islamist insurgency and because of what he called the meddling of the judiciary.
- He rails against the Department of Energy for what he calls meddling in local energy development, and wants a smaller Department of Education, which he says is "encroaching on local parents and educators."
- In addition to that political context, the word meddling gives an audacious or severe rightness to the action of this particular poem and its fabric: In another emotional context, meddling would not feel right as a term for poetic striving for something more ambitious or more glorious? than simply to please.
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