From Don Boudreaux: The real and truly harmful epidemic in America is not obesity, but meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

The present is the age of official protection, and perhaps just a trifle too much interference and meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference

And one of the most important things that people need to understand is what we are finding there with Iran's meddlesomeness in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007] Reference

The fact of the matter is the policies she would embrace of big government, government meddlesomeness, even more laxness in the tort laws.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2006] Reference

The unscrupulousness of some lawyers, who fatten their purses at the expense of marital happiness, and the meddlesomeness of relatives are also contributing causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference

Every child is menaced from without not only by material dangers but by the meddlesomeness of alien wills; and from within, by an exaggerated idea of his own personality and all the fancies it breeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

Morga complains of the meddlesomeness of ecclesiastics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 09 of 55 1593-1597 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

I have known in such cases disastrous consequences to follow over-officiousness and meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference

What you learned of old Eliphalet Congdon's meddlesomeness jibes exactly with what I know of his character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference

My dear, my poor Queen might have been with me to this day, if it hadn't been for the meddlesomeness of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls] Reference

But it does not require the meddlesomeness of a Whalley, or the volubility of a Newdegate, to make a politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities] Reference

As the result of your miserly ways, your meddlesomeness and your selfishness, you've just about ruined your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference

If you have told me the truth your meddlesomeness will have far-reaching consequences too dreadful to think about!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blacksheep! Blacksheep!] Reference

Administrative inefficiency, Seward’s meddlesomeness and a heavy storm at sea conjoined to cause the failure of the expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter I] Reference

Mrs. Delarayne proceeded to explain that owing to the meddlesomeness of some officious busybody on the Executive Council of the Society for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Old for Dolls A Novel] Reference

Greatly to his surprise, however, when he broached the subject to Menzel, he discovered that the latter greatly resented such meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Telephone] Reference

PDP responded to AC's allegation of suspected meddlesomeness by Obasanjo, in the 2011 national polls in the state and told the party to mind its own business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thisday Online] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Telephone] Reference

I thanked him for his solicitude, and retiring to my chamber, fell a-musing on what had passed and reproached myself grievously for my meddlesomeness in kicking the alcove.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I] Reference

In fact, the Commission was at some point, quick to shifting its apparent inefficiency to the meddlesomeness of former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aondoaaka.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanguard] Reference

Mr. Hensarling's group is promoting a more market-based approach that actually reduces, rather than increases, the government meddlesomeness that fosters financial crises like this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leslie Carbone] Reference

They were accused of terrorising dying men out of their possessions, of laxity in the confessional, of absolving their friends too easily, of overweening ambition and restless meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377)] Reference

While looking one day at the house where she was born, I was sorely tempted to crave permission to view the interior, but refrained; something of her own dislike of prying and meddlesomeness came over me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

"Ah! well," he said, "I have no doubt that what I have said appears to you mere meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir George Tressady — Volume I] Reference

It is when they will fight you-the most attractive example of moral meddlesomeness-that beings will have learned to be free. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fate of the Phoenix]

A somewhat embarrassed empressement, arising from the consciousness of goodwill disturbed by the fear of imputed meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malcolm] Reference

"My poor husband would have left me a comfortable fortune in my own right if it had not been for the meddlesomeness of some one who had no business to interfere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Fiddler] Reference

It was all out of his niggling meddlesomeness, so as to show off before the men. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser] Reference

She had a divine meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference

It was not a question of meddlesomeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

Surgical, meddlesomeness, 300; nursing, 271.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference