Examples of meddlesome

• True, the invasive publication may titillate meddlesome people and relieve their desires for gossip that is none of their business.

• We have seen the meddlesome tentacular head office disbanded.

• It is complex, meddlesome and burdensome to the taxpayer without giving value for money.

• This gives one of those opportunities so dear to the heart, unfortunately, of the officials of meddlesome action causing irritation.

• Or it could degenerate into a cosy, introspective huddle, suspicious of the outside world, suffocated within by bureaucracy and meddlesome regulation.

• It is a meddlesome, bureaucratic and wrong-headed programme.

• There are others who are less so; either less ambitious or less meddlesome.

• They can continue to do so provided there is no meddlesome intereference.