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How to pronounce meddler in English?

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Type Words
Type of persona non grata, unwelcome person
Has types buttinsky, kibitzer, backseat driver, nosy-parker, quidnunc, nosey-parker, busybody
Derivation meddle

Examples of meddler

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Attorney General Charles Njonjo turned against Carr, branding him a meddler.
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You are not being a meddler to fear for the fate of the next-door puppy.
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Pakistan, a longtime meddler in Afghanistan, also needs careful handling.
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Times are tough and people want to see a hero, not a dottery old meddler.
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Neither candidate looks a likely monetary meddler, certainly with Saint Alan still there.
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Figaro is still the wily meddler, but his affection for practical Susanna remains firm.
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If Cuban is a meddler, he is a meddler who wins for the most part.
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If Kohl is a meddler, he is a meddler who loses for the most part.
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He talks to Wilson and the assistants regularly but is no meddler.
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More examples
  • An officious annoying person who interferes with others
  • Meddler (1890-1916) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse who was a Champion at age two in England and a Leading sire in North America in 1904 and 1906. Bred and raced by George Baird, his sire, St. Gatien, dead heated for the win in the 1884 Epsom Derby and won the 1885 Ascot Gold Cup. ...
  • "Meddler" is a science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. It was first published in Future Science Fiction, October, 1954 with illustration by Virgil Finlay. Levack, Daniel (1981). PKD: A Philip K. Dick Bibliography, Underwood/Miller, pp. 108-109. ...
  • One who meddles or interferes in something not of their concern