meddle
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Meddle: Miss Pert said I was a pig; now I’m a boar!
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2019
Meddle cautiously, and with the knowledge that this might very well backfire, but meddle nonetheless.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2016
Meddle with the material as much as you like but if you attained perfection with the colours years ago it really is time to stop messing about.
From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2010
Meddle not in policies which you do not understand.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
As a politician, for instance, his general capacity for getting himself and his party into a mess, earned from the most intellectually powerful of his political opponents the enduring title of “Lord Meddle and Muddle.”
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
Vocabulary lists containing meddle
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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