74 examples of meddlesome in sentences

No doubt they resented a storekeeper's intrusion into well-bred company, and some were there who had publicly cursed me for a meddlesome upstart.

Then I'm a meddlesome old fellow and rather fond of you.

I have great difficulty sometimes in overcoming the feeling that my questions on these points are a meddlesome interference in private matters.'

Meddlesome persons have been known to state that Cyril Squyrt's father kept a prosperous hot-sausage-and-mashed-potato shop in Leeds.

One day, as he was going an errand to Neck of Land, he was accosted by a meddlesome fellow named William Stump, with: "Master Robert, do you know you are soon to have a father-in-law?" (Stepfather was in those days known as father-in-law.)

There is a just and scholarly, as well as a meddlesome and feeble way of clearing an old writer from uncleannesses that cause him now to be a name only where he should be a power.

"She's always been treated kindly, and she wouldn't have thought of taking such a step, if she hadn't been put up to it by meddlesome Abolitionists, who are always interfering with gentlemen's servants.

By what he did he invited death and for his meddlesome interference he was destined ultimately to pay the penalty.

"Because I was a very foolish, meddlesome ass, who fancied that I ought to do my duty once in a way by my neighbours.

I put it down to a curious, meddlesome nature.

A stop cock should be used next to boiler, as you ascertain whether it is open or shut by merely looking at it, while the globe valve can be closed by some meddlesome party and you would not discover it, and would burst some part of your pump by forcing water against it.

There has been some other influence here, that meddlesome Jesuit or the pompous Bossuet, perhaps.

The swarms of negroes were stupid and slovenly, the cabins and hospitals filthy, the women overdriven, the overseer callous, the master indifferent, and the new mistress herself, repudiating the title, was more irritable and meddlesome than helpful.

Little Joe and the meddlesome pig.

Little Joe and the meddlesome pig.

How darest thou lay a finger upon the man after the magistrate has discharged him?" Thus admonished, he reluctantly relinquished his grasp, and went off swearing vengeance against "the meddlesome Quaker.

Those meddlesome House People have put two new pieces of glass in the hayloft window, and how shall I ever get in to build my nest?"

THE MEDDLESOME CHILD 18.

THE MEDDLESOME CHILD.

None of this sort of legislation has their approval and the courts are regarded as meddlesome when they enforce it.

If by any chance some meddlesome body should see it and tell this arrogant lady of the castle that I have the keepsake she sent you, there would be trouble, Max, there would be trouble.

Inquisitive, inquiring, intrusive, meddlesome, peeping, prying.

Andy regarded his stylish sister-in-law as a very choice gem, which was not to be handled too roughly, but he was not afraid of her; he was seldom afraid of anybody, and when Richard was gone, he walked boldly up to Ethelyn and said: "I don't want to be meddlesome, but 'pears to me if you'd spoke out your feelings to Dick, you'd said, 'Tell Melinda Jones I don't want to see her, neither to-night nor any time.'

Melinda was not a meddlesome girl, but she did like to help manage other people's business, doing it so well, and evincing so little selfishness in her consideration for others, that when once she had taken charge of a person's affairs she was pretty sure to have the privilege again.

He had none of my own meddlesome quality.

74 examples of  meddlesome  in sentences