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meddlesomeness

/med-l-suhm/US // ˈmɛd l səm //UK // (ˈmɛdəlsəm) //

多事之秋,烦人的事,烦心事,烦人的事情

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : given to meddling; interfering; intrusive.

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Examples

  • If Eshoo and McNerney want to hand the network a delicious issue to grow its audience, they’ll keep the meddlesome inquiries coming.

  • Molly Goldberg was a radio and TV character synonymous with a meddlesome sort of Jewish mother for generations of Americans.

  • Under Musharraf, the military was seen as meddlesome and oppressive force.

  • Annoyed, young Rush sends out a pouting "who will rid me of these meddlesome hippies?"

  • You know, before junk happened like civil rights and women's rights and all those meddlesome regulations got in the way.

  • But he was in that investigating, pugnacious, meddlesome mood which is apt to seize an old male bear in the autumn.

  • Idle or meddlesome talk never helps any one, either the one who talks or the one who is discussed.

  • I don't care how conscientiously a man attends to business, he can't always protect himself against meddlesome people.

  • "It's none of your meddlesome business, you little black scorpion," he said quietly.

  • So you were seen near Richmond station by some meddlesome individual—probably when you got out of the trap!