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Example sentences for "intermeddling"

Lexicographically close words:
intermarrying; intermaxillary; intermeddle; intermeddled; intermeddleth; intermedia; intermediacy; intermediaries; intermediary; intermediate
  1. Each solemnly bound itself to all the others neither to undertake nor permit any encroachment upon or intermeddling with another's reserved rights.

  2. If nations stood absolutely alone, dissociated from each other, so that what passed in one had little or no influence in another, only a tyrannical or intermeddling spirit could fail to recognize this right.

  3. Even these instances attest the intermeddling spirit; for such intervention, however received, was at least attempted.

  4. Intervention between nations is only a common form of participation in foreign war, but intervention in a civil war is intermeddling in the domestic concerns of another nation.

  5. They knew that the sovereign, during that age, pretended to have the sole regulation of foreign trade, and that their intermeddling with that prerogative would have drawn on them the severest reproof, if not chastisement.

  6. However, he could not refrain from intermeddling in public affairs.

  7. And that miserable intermeddling little book agent is another.

  8. It was to this intermeddling book agent, then, that he owed the premature explosion of the mine that was to have blown the Citizens' Party to fragments, and to have landed the fragments in the basket held ready by Attorney Toole?

  9. Mrs. Joplin, in apparent disgust at this intermeddling with her affairs, withdrew from the village to a small town, about twenty miles distant, and there set up a shop.

  10. Howard Malcolm, uprose in wrath and inveighed against any intermeddling of the North with slavery, and brought the meeting with a high hand to a close.

  11. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

  12. I am wholly opposed to that prurient intermeddling policy which finds so much favour with certain classes of Indian officials.

  13. All would have gone well but for the cursed intermeddling of that sneaking Yankee.

  14. I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

  15. Law) Defn: An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on.

  16. Scots Law) Defn: An intermeddling with the affairs of another, either on legal grounds or without authority.

  17. He despatched a missive to the Count of Toulouse--who already lay under excommunication for alleged intermeddling with the rights of the clergy--charging him with harbouring heretics and giving offices of emolument to Jews.

  18. His representations with respect to Fort Cumberland had the desired effect in counteracting the mischievous intermeddling of Dinwiddie.

  19. We have proved without the least deference, often with a brutal hand, to the misfortune of art and poetry, that we are capable of successfully intermeddling with the machinery of nature, even in what concerns our own persons.

  20. This is true, for Christianity, soliciting admission into all nations of the world, abstained, as behooved it, from intermeddling with the civil institutions of any.

  21. Senator Stockton presided, and speeches were made by several gentlemen--mainly directed against the policy of intermeddling to any degree or for any purpose in the affairs of foreign nations.

  22. On the 26th of February, Mr. Miller, of New Jersey, spoke against the policy of intermeddling at all in the affairs of foreign nations.

  23. Well had it been, if the intermeddling of this bureaucracy had stopped there.


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    Other words:
    curious; impertinence; meddling; presumption