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As he worked, the boy Icarus stood by watching his father, and sometimes handling the feathers with his meddlesome fingers.
VAN DYCKESTELLE M. HURLL
These were intensely strengthened by the imprudence of a meddlesome neighbor.
HUBERT'S WIFEMINNIE MARY LEE
He was playing with the colonel's offering as a child plays with fire, with the same intent face and meddlesome maladroitness.
WITCHING HILLE. W. HORNUNG
And I thought I heard her murmur something about a meddlesome old maid.
THAT AFFAIR NEXT DOORANNA KATHARINE GREEN
What induced that meddlesome old Patell, Sheykh Abdoolla, to show them the way?
A NOBLE QUEEN (VOLUME II OF III)PHILIP MEADOWS TAYLOR
There are no relatives, no claims, no meddlesome legatees to question the disposition of Colonel Valois' estate.
THE LITTLE LADY OF LAGUNITASRICHARD HENRY SAVAGE
Once, in a fit of meddlesome benevolence, I restrained his father from giving him a powerful aperient for diarrhœa.
SADDLE AND MOCASSINFRANCIS FRANCIS JR.
She was inconsiderate; she was meddlesome; she soon ceased even to be pathetic.
LADY ROSE'S DAUGHTERMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
In the ages of real belief, Science did not make any meddlesome attempt to explain the nature of the Divinity.
THE THREE CITIES TRILOGY, COMPLETEEMILE ZOLA
Compared with the freedom of action in such a government as ours, any form of communism is an iniquitous and meddlesome despotism.
QUOTES AND IMAGES FROM THE WORKS OF CHARLES DUDLEY WARNERCHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
WORDS RELATED TO MEDDLESOME
- arrogant
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- contumelious
- discourteous
- disgracious
- flip
- forward
- fresh
- ill-mannered
- impolite
- impudent
- inappropriate
- incongruous
- inquisitive
- insolent
- interfering
- intrusive
- lippy
- meddlesome
- meddling
- nosy
- off base
- offensive
- out of line
- pert
- presumptuous
- procacious
- prying
- rude
- sassy
- smart
- smart alecky
- uncalled-for
- uncivil
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- unsuitable
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