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单词 meddlesome
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Definition of meddlesome in English:

meddlesome

adjective ˈmɛd(ə)ls(ə)mˈmɛdlsəm
  • Fond of meddling; interfering.

    爱管闲事的,好干涉的

    heaven rid him of meddlesome politicians!

    愿老天爷让他摆脱那些烦人的政客吧!

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Much of this is due to the government's meddlesome social engineering.
    • But to Barry, he could seem like just another meddlesome boss.
    • With troops in 70 percent of the world's countries we are naturally perceived as the most meddlesome of nations.
    • But that's how the government, which seems to get bigger and more meddlesome by the week, set it up.
    • He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
    • With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
    • She was, after all, only one meddlesome old woman.
    • I don't want it to be tricky or messy, and I certainly don't want that meddlesome idiot in the way.
    • If foreigners find the United States to be too meddlesome, it isn't because of our unmatched military power.
    • The Government has become more intrusive, more coercive, more meddlesome, and less effective.
    • It's perfectly capable of remaining in its own time-warped bubble without help from its meddlesome friends.
    • The broadcast will be live and unfiltered - unfiltered, at least, by meddlesome journalists.
    • Social workers are seen as meddlesome and health service managers as hard-hearted.
    • It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
    • In doing so, they waste money, intimidate doctors, clog up the system and draw in the meddlesome fools in Westminster.
    • Then there are some who are merely meddlesome and intrusive in the dressing room.
    • She is unhappy, bossy, meddlesome, and possessive.
    • So, anyway, to avoid suspicion, I had to invite that meddlesome girl, too.
    • For once, those meddlesome noses are actively welcome.
    • She had to do without the family she had relied on for her entire life: an overbearing, vicious mother, irritating brothers, meddlesome cousins, and so on.
    Synonyms
    interfering, meddling, intrusive, prying, inquisitive, officious, importunate
    informal snooping, nosy
    Scottish &amp Northern English nebby
    archaic pragmatic, intermeddling
    rare obtrusive, busy

Derivatives

  • meddlesomely

  • adverb
    • He watches his father meddlesomely destroy his brother's baseball dreams.
  • meddlesomeness

  • noun ˈmɛd(ə)lsəmnəsˈmɛdlsəmnəs
    • It wasn't a bad mood per se but it did contain more than my recommended daily dose of meddlesomeness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now Emma has found what she has really been looking for, which enables her to shed her false meddlesomeness forever.
      • Alas, he had underestimated the vengeful meddlesomeness of the bureaucrats.
      • Other traits for which people found fault with him were his great strictness, his curiosity and his meddlesomeness.
      • He alleged that the president had periodically bribed legislators to remove their officers who resisted presidential meddlesomeness.

Definition of meddlesome in US English:

meddlesome

adjectiveˈmedlsəmˈmɛdlsəm
  • Fond of meddling; interfering.

    爱管闲事的,好干涉的

    a gaggle of meddlesome politicians

    愿老天爷让他摆脱那些烦人的政客吧!

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With troops in 70 percent of the world's countries we are naturally perceived as the most meddlesome of nations.
    • The broadcast will be live and unfiltered - unfiltered, at least, by meddlesome journalists.
    • It was just another boring city, filled with meddlesome people and merchants who like to drag you to their stands against your wishes, insisting that you buy something outrageously overpriced.
    • He also gives the subsidiary characters - a dim married couple and a meddlesome mother-in-law - meaty roles whose farce is grounded in wry truth.
    • If foreigners find the United States to be too meddlesome, it isn't because of our unmatched military power.
    • But to Barry, he could seem like just another meddlesome boss.
    • She is unhappy, bossy, meddlesome, and possessive.
    • The Government has become more intrusive, more coercive, more meddlesome, and less effective.
    • She had to do without the family she had relied on for her entire life: an overbearing, vicious mother, irritating brothers, meddlesome cousins, and so on.
    • It's perfectly capable of remaining in its own time-warped bubble without help from its meddlesome friends.
    • Social workers are seen as meddlesome and health service managers as hard-hearted.
    • In doing so, they waste money, intimidate doctors, clog up the system and draw in the meddlesome fools in Westminster.
    • But that's how the government, which seems to get bigger and more meddlesome by the week, set it up.
    • So, anyway, to avoid suspicion, I had to invite that meddlesome girl, too.
    • She was, after all, only one meddlesome old woman.
    • Much of this is due to the government's meddlesome social engineering.
    • For once, those meddlesome noses are actively welcome.
    • Then there are some who are merely meddlesome and intrusive in the dressing room.
    • With a less than brilliant director, ham actors and a meddlesome newcomer, will it ever reach opening night?
    • I don't want it to be tricky or messy, and I certainly don't want that meddlesome idiot in the way.
    Synonyms
    interfering, meddling, intrusive, prying, inquisitive, officious, importunate
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