meddlesome
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And as the tribunes who stir up the populace’s antipathy toward Coriolanus, William DeMeritt and Zuzanna Szadkowski are bland, seemingly unwilling to decide whether their characters are nefarious or just mildly meddlesome.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
Bonnie Black delivers compelling performances as both the marquise’s mother, a woman of mean understanding, and the meddlesome Madam Graffigny, a not entirely welcome guest at the marquise’s family estate.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2023
He could be meddlesome, a freelance diplomat who irked more than one administration.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 24, 2023
Did I do the right thing, or was I being meddlesome?
From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022
Mr. Curtain had transformed all those meddlesome people into his own private workforce, and they didn’t even realize it.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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