meddlesomeness

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In so doing, Cleary creates characters that children can relate to, imbuing them with impishness and meddlesomeness.

From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2021

It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Earlier in the week the Japanese War Ministry had fulminated against the meddlesomeness in Manchuria of consular and military "observers" sent there by the Great Powers.

From Time Magazine Archive

It would have been impossible if he had been hampered at every step by government regulation and meddlesomeness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every child is menaced from without not only by material dangers but by the meddlesomeness of alien wills; and from within, by an exaggerated idea of his own personality and all the fancies it breeds.

From The Simple Life by Hendee, Mary Louise