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meddling

me duh ling

  • n  the act of altering something secretly or improperly
  • v  intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
  • s  intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

  • The only such FBI incident of meddling in political affairs cited in the Eisenhower years, this was no more than an un solicited digression by Hoover.
  • The scam artists want to kill her, she says, because they don't like her meddling.
  • A man of fire, a warrior of peace, Kouchner invented "the duty of international meddling.
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  • Barack Obama in Telegraph.co.uk
    Mr Obama said yesterday (Tue) he had "deep concerns about the election" while cautioning that "it's not productive, given the history of US-Iranian relations, for the US president to be seen as meddling in Iranian elections".
  • Nicolas Sarkozy in The Age
    And one of us became president. Well, let the other do likewise, huh? I mean, that's not meddlingin the US election, Sarkozy said.

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