(v. i.) To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a good sense.
(v. i.) To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.
(v. t.) To mix; to mingle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Conservative commentators responded with fury to what they believed was inappropriate meddling at a crucial moment in the town hall debate.
(2) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(3) May delivered an unexpected broadside against the EU on Wednesday afternoon, claiming the European commission and unnamed officials had been trying through various means to meddle in the UK election campaign.
(4) China says its territorial claims have a historical basis and objects to what it considers US meddling.
(5) Obama warned Moscow before the election to stop meddling, but reports have since emerged that he decided against retaliating after the CIA warned him Putin was behind it.
(6) These stories play on half-truths, like the presence of far-right nationalists at Maidan, and reasonable doubt, like skepticism of western meddling.
(7) The Guardian view on human rights in China: Liu Xiaobo is dying, free him | Editorial Read more Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer in May, the Nobel peace laureate is at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war with western governments urging China to show “humanity” by letting him travel overseas for treatment and Beijing accusing the world of meddling in its “domestic affairs”.
(8) | Luke Harding Read more 18 December Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation , Conway says no one involved with the campaign had any contact with Russians who sought to meddle in the US election.
(9) Brennan's testimony theoretically represents a rare chance to learn more about drone killing, warrantless wiretapping, torture, rendition, foreign meddling and other odd cloak-and-daggery.
(10) SEVERAL PRACTICAL POINTS IN PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT ARE DISCUSSED: not to tie staff to the institution, not to meddle with their outside affairs or to become too socially intimate, to be sensitive to unexpressed reactions of the staff, to avoid secrets.
(11) If Phil Jackson’s presence means that meddling, incompetent owner James Dolan will be much less involved in the decision making process, that alone would be a step in the right direction no matter how Jackson fairs in his new role.
(12) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
(13) The city hall staged a massive protest gathering at the time , led by Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux, which was designed to highlight unionist disgust at the British and Irish governments' meddling in Northern Irish affairs.
(14) Stokes sent a downward header towards the far corner from seven yards but the pesky keeper again meddled, diving full length to push it to safety.
(15) Rejecting his overnight demand that the promised political transition and reforms begin without delay, the Egyptian foreign ministry said bluntly that meddling by "foreign parties" was unacceptable and was "aimed to incite the internal situation".
(16) Swire emphasised that the foreign affairs committee was independent from the government, and that the proposed visit did not therefore amount to the UK government meddling in China’s internal affairs.
(17) Notwithstanding the abundance of evidence that Russia hacked our political institutions during the presidential campaign and dumped documents in an effort to meddle in our political affairs, President-elect Trump’s comments this morning continue to contradict our intelligence professionals and carry water for the Kremlin,” Schiff said on Wednesday.
(18) Welby's intervention suggests he will not be discouraged from speaking out despite criticism of his predecessor, Rowan Williams, who was accused of meddling in politics .
(19) From meddling schools and churches to helpful librarians and permissive parents, the stories of our readers reflect a broad spectrum of experiences.
(20) Hofer himself described Farage’s comments as a “crass misjudgment”, adding that “it doesn’t fill me with joy when someone meddles from outside”.
Unduly
Definition:
(adv.) In an undue manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that infants undergoing intensive care are unduly stressed.
(2) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(3) Also, occasional instances of unduly elevated serum TSH titers were found.
(4) The patient's unduly rapid response to chemotherapy suggested that the procedure had effected a substantial reduction in the leukocyte mass.
(5) The results of the modified Elek test were not unduly influenced by the different types of agar used.
(6) The Jefferson girls Do not have flat behinds, but theirs are cleanly shaped and not unduly full.
(7) In extensive-stage disease, A RDI correlated positively with CR+, PR but only in randomized trials, and this correlation lost statistical significance after unduly influential observations were eliminated.
(8) Predictions based on very early assessment are, therefore, often unduly pessimistic.
(9) Selegiline as an adjunctive agent to conventional levodopa therapy was not unduly impressive with regard to preventing progression of Parkinson's disease.
(10) From these data, and against specified epidemiologic criteria for significance, the possibility that particular helmets were associated unduly with cerebral and spinal neurotrauma was examined.
(11) The use of simulated data has shown that the recommended methods are not unduly sensitive to experimental error.
(12) On the other hand, when cow milk is fed together with beikost, infants receive unnecessarily high intakes of protein and electrolytes, resulting in an unduly high renal solute load.
(13) It doesn’t matter that all other developed nations have robust pro-labor politics: in America, that sort of thing is for college students or anyone unduly high.
(14) The preparation was not unduly sensitive to tubocurarine at 0 days and there was little evidence of T4:T1 fade.
(15) Many, however, were concerned about “dropping the ‘patient’ language in the statement, whenever that might occur, as risking a shift in market expectations for the beginning of policy firming toward an unduly narrow range of dates.
(16) These data suggest that intestinal colonization may have been an important reservoir for this outbreak, and the findings may explain the unduly prolonged course of intrahospital spread as well as the difficulty encountered in the eradication and control of the outbreak.
(17) Later, when we are driving back towards Castle Stuart golf club, host to the Scottish Open championship, Salmond seems unduly relieved that his speech seems to have gone well and seeks reassurance.
(18) He had had a paranoid walk to the hotel across Manchester with too much eye contact from passers-by that had unduly [un]nerved him.
(19) To this they add a presentation of their own cases treated by posterolateral arthrodesis, noting that this method is not unduly difficult to perform and gives good results in a high percentage of cases.
(20) Amnesics' difficulty in recollecting events (and partially learned facts) from before the onset of their disease (retrograde amnesia) is explicable in terms of interference between current events and prior events in similar contexts in patients who are unduly controlled by their current context.