“It wasn't a bad mood per se but it did contain more than my recommended daily dose of meddlesomeness.”

“Now Emma has found what she has really been looking for, which enables her to shed her false meddlesomeness forever.”

“He alleged that the president had periodically bribed legislators to remove their officers who resisted presidential meddlesomeness.”

“But the little meddler covers her tracks so well that I can never be sure.”

“His reputation as a meddler, unwilling to afford his managers free rein, is as damaging as what appears to be his unrealistic ambition.”

“He is a city-dweller, a Whitehall centralist, a natural meddler, an interventionist at home and abroad.”

“Thus, the development of the commune in the twelfth century was not the typical reaction against meddling by local feudal lords.”

“And the politically correct meddlers, abiding in the town halls and government departments of the land, were sore annoyed.”

“While her family are unquestionably meddlers, their motives are more or less sympathetic.”

“A TV reporter was canned by WCBS yesterday after he shouted the F-word at two meddlers who horned in on his live shot.”