Meddling

Examples

• In that subservience, and not in the meddling of Mr. Morgan, is the reason why American journalism is so flaccid, so repetitious and so dull. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Margaret took it up: 'About women not meddling. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They would have adjudged him right served for his tyranny and meddling. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• They had the wisdom to refrain from any overt meddling with public ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What business have you meddling in my matters? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You have spoken of my 'secret meddling,' and my 'interfering ignorance,' and my 'false assent. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I know no such thing, answered the Friar; and defy thee for a meddling coxcomb! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• You two are restless, meddling, impudent scoundrels, whose chief motive-principle is a selfish ambition, as dangerous as it is puerile. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I'm captain of this here ship, and from now on you keep your meddling nose out of my business. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Meddling 'twixt master and man is liker meddling 'twixt husband and wife than aught else: it takes a deal o' wisdom for to do ony good. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• You annoy me with small meddling, with petty tyranny; you exasperate my temper, and make and keep me passionate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Had he been as acute as he was meddling, as profound as he was prying, he might have found that in Sir Philip's face whereby to correct his inference. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Don't waste your money and your temper--in the fine spring time of your life, sir--by meddling with the Moonstone. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Mrs. Pryor, who usually shrank from meddling fingers and near approach, allowed the license complacently. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Whatever you do in the end, Dorothea, you should really keep back at present, and not volunteer any meddling with this Bulstrode business. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

Edited by Erna