How to Use meddlesome in a Sentence

meddlesome

adjective
  • Her neighbors saw her as a meddlesome nuisance.
  • The father doesn’t know enough to be an meddlesome swim parent.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2022
  • At the very least, doing so will alert the coach to think about how to deal with meddlesome parents.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Much to his chagrin, his unnatural spawn makes for a meddlesome son.
    — Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But for more than six decades, humanity has fought back against meddlesome bugs with radiation.
    — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2017
  • LaVar is a constant pain, far more meddlesome and influential.
    — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 May 2017
  • 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, 30 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Immediately, sparks fly but the road to love will be anything but easy when their meddlesome friends and family get involved.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • However, the fear of being perceived as overly critical or meddlesome can prevent them from speaking up.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Across the country, patients dealing with the meddlesome condition are now turning to Botox—yes, Botox.
    — Ali Francis, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Iago is downright meddlesome, aiding Jafar in his machinations to steal the genie's lamp.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
  • Beijing has characterized the spontaneous protests as the work of meddlesome foreign countries.
    — Washington Post, 22 June 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
  • Moon has become particularly close with Bean, who plays her mother, and who has put a lot of thought into how best to be helpful without being meddlesome.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • Her frugal immigrant parents bring their own food, and Nate’s meddlesome mom harangues her son about his career and her desperation for a grandchild.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Still, any route out of the crisis is unclear, with Bangladesh’s once meddlesome military today firmly in Hasina’s corner.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • 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
  • The Taliban face the poverty, internal strife, illicit crops, meddlesome neighbors, and threat of insurrections that are endemic to their country—and have proved the bane of all its rulers.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield — the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield — the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom.
    — Tamara Fuentes, Seventeen, 25 Dec. 2020
  • 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

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