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meddlesomeness

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med·dle·some  (mdl-sm)
adj.
Inclined to meddle or interfere.
meddle·some·ly adv.
meddle·some·ness n.
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Noun1.meddlesomeness - aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation
intrusiveness, officiousness
aggressiveness - the quality of being bold and enterprising


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Must not injustice be a strife which arises among the three principles-- a meddlesomeness, and interference, and rising up of a part of the soul against the whole, an assertion of unlawful authority, which is made by a rebellious subject against a true prince, of whom he is the natural vassal,--what is all this confusion and delusion but injustice, and intemperance and cowardice and ignorance, and every form of vice?
The Republic by Plato View in context
Minute followed minute in which I looked at nothing, and could think of nothing, but the stolen bullion at my feet; then I gathered what of the dust I could, pocketed it in pinches to hide my meddlesomeness, and blew the rest away.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
But the matter- of-fact young telephonists agreed to lay the blame on "induction"--a hazy word which usually meant the natural meddlesomeness of electricity.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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