interloping

VERB

meddle

Synonyms

STRONG

advance encroach encumber hinder impede impose infringe inquire interfere interpose intrude invade kibitz molest obtrude pry snoop tamper trespass

WEAK

abuse rights barge in break in on busybody butt in chime in come uninvited crash the gates dabble in fool with horn in intermeddle mess around mix in push in put two cents in sidewalk-superintend stick nose in worm in

Antonyms

STRONG

aid assist facilitate forward help leave alone retreat withdraw yield

Example Sentences

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But announced several months after Beyoncé's win, some have seen it as a sign of discontent over her apparent interloping on the country-music space.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026

Sophisticated, experienced firms like Boston Beer Company hardly know what to do about the now-struggling hard-seltzer market, but Happy Dad and its interloping founders are thriving.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

But in Gabriel Coutard’s “Le Tigres et les Fruits,” the interloping animal is upstaged by a huge tree that bears many fruits and vegetables, including some that don’t grow on trees.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2022

From this vantage point, Abbey wrote in defense of the nature—if complicatedly so, still aware of his own interloping status.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021

Any interloping accomplishments, or a faculty which cannot be taken into public pay, if they are to be indulged in him at all, must creep along under the cloak of his more serviceable privileged merits.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry