How to Use meddlesome in a Sentence

meddlesome

adjective

• Her neighbors saw her as a meddlesome nuisance.
• Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?’ And then the next day he was killed.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• At the very least, doing so will alert the coach to think about how to deal with meddlesome parents.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
• The father doesn’t know enough to be an meddlesome swim parent.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
• So we’re spared the sort of meddlesome-U.S.-government boilerplate plot that weighed down a movie like Arrival.
  — Vulture, 20 July 2022
• But life, in this case a devious grandfather and a meddlesome mother, gets in the way of their true love.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 28 Sep. 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.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2021
• Most of these attacks are meant to be part of espionage campaigns or to be meddlesome rather than deadly.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
• Across the country, patients dealing with the meddlesome condition are now turning to Botox—yes, Botox.
  — Ali Francis, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
• Many suspect that the group, which seems to have petrol, weapons and ammunition in abundance, is backed by one of Congo’s meddlesome neighbours.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• The camera watches, weaves, and waits—not so much sticking its nose in, like a meddlesome guest, as making sure that people are attended to, if only with a glance.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• The proud but meddlesome mother of three women tries to find the perfect man for her youngest daughter by placing an online personal ad.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• But make sure that person doesn’t cross the line between useful feedback and meddlesome revision, or worse.
  — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• Pyongyang has ignored his calls for dialogue and chastised him for being meddlesome in his attempts to serve as a bridge between Kim Jong Un and Trump.
  — Fortune, 16 June 2020
• LaVar is a constant pain, far more meddlesome and influential.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
• Iago is downright meddlesome, aiding Jafar in his machinations to steal the genie's lamp.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• But for more than six decades, humanity has fought back against meddlesome bugs with radiation.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2017
• So, too, is your fear that answering an invitation to lunch will be considered meddlesome.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
• All three ladies sided with Romano’s Emmy winner — which just so happens to be a sitcom about meddlesome family members!
  — Yvonne Juris, PEOPLE.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• But in subsequent previews the audience was just as hostile to the play, even without a meddlesome medical emergency.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield — the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom.
  — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 4 Jan. 2022
• To them, the social contract lay in tatters, torn up by liberals, a meddlesome government, and demands from African-Americans and coddled college students.
  — Jefferson Cowie, New York Times, 11 May 2020
• Both plays feature a widowed and meddlesome Muslim father trying to marry a spirited and independent daughter – 32 in Akhtar’s play and 34 here – who has loved and lost another.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2017
• The overall impression is of a world alive in a subversive and meddlesome manner, correlating with Conor’s anguished sense of powerlessness.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• Lurie generally shows restraint with his lieutenants and is committed to winning if not openly meddlesome.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2021
• The author argues that mass migration from Central America is the result of decades of meddlesome and misguided American policy in the region.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
• The ghouls would love nothing more than a chance to stoke some jingoistic fury about how meddlesome foreign powers are to blame for our own political incompetence and societal decline.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
• A pastiche of meddlesome characters with names like Bunny and Tabitha begin quizzing Guillam about wrongful deaths caused by lawless spies, and demanding that secret records be unearthed and exhibited in court.
  — David Ignatius, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• At one point, the sleeping puppet is awakened by a meddlesome goat (Handspring’s animals are always astonishing) but not before the puppeteers are startled out of slumber one by one — the last one up finally waking Michael.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024