Synonyms for meddling

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1. meddling, tampering(adj)

   the act of altering something secretly or improperly

   Synonyms:
   tampering

   Antonyms:
   unintrusive, not intrusive

2. interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied(adj)

   intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

   "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business"

   Synonyms:
   interfering, busybodied, meddlesome, fussy, engaged, officious, busy, in use(p)

   Antonyms:
   not intrusive, unintrusive

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1. meddling(adjective)

   Synonyms:
   annoying

2. meddling(noun)

   Action of the verb meddle.

   Synonyms:
   annoying

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1. meddling

   An inquisitive person is one who is bent on finding out all that can be found out by inquiry, especially of little and personal matters, and hence is generally meddlesome and prying. Inquisitive may be used in a good sense, tho in such connection inquiring is to be preferred; as, an inquiring mind. As applied to a state of mind, curious denotes a keen and rather pleasurable desire to know fully something to which one's attention has been called, but without the active tendency that inquisitive implies; a well-bred person may be curious to know, but will not be inquisitive in trying to ascertain, what is of interest in the affairs of another.

   Synonyms:
   curious, inquiring, inquisitive, intrusive, meddlesome, peeping, prying, scrutinizing, searching

   Antonyms:
   apathetic, careless, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, unconcerned, uninterested

   Preposition:
   Inquisitive about, concerning, in regard to, regarding trifles.

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1. meddling(a.)

   Synonyms:
   interfering, intermeddling, pragmatical, officious

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1. meddling(n)

   Synonyms:
   interference, intrusion, intermeddling

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1. List of paraphrases:

   interference, entangling, interfering, intrusion, intervention

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1. Mark Galeotti:

   If Poroshenko starts to make a serious revival, then this may change, but I think they are well aware of the risks of a backlash to electoral meddling, they have little reason to upset the apple cart right now.

2. Donald Trump:

   I accept Vladimir Putin intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place.

3. White House:

   Text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok andLisa Pagein 2016 that were obtained by Fox News on Tuesday refer to then-candidate Donald Trump as a ‘loathsome human’ and ‘an idiot.’ More than 10,000 texts between Strzok and Page were being reviewed by the Justice Department after Strzok was removed from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe after it was revealed that some of them contained anti-Trump content. The messages were sent during the 2016 campaign and contain discussions about various candidates. … House Intelligence Committee investigators have long regarded Strzok as a key figure in the chain of events that began when the bureau, in 2016, received the infamous anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and launched a counterintelligence investigation into Russian meddling in the election that ultimately came to encompass FISA surveillance of a Trump campaign associate.

4. President Barack Obama:

   He insisted that if he wants to come -- and it was a very important meeting -- he needs to be far away enough from the election that it doesn't look like in some ways we're meddling or putting our thumbs on the scale.

5. Gary Greenberg:

   The overall market conditions are poor but the government responses are a bit panicked rather than calm and considered, the problem is you need to let the market reach its own level rather than meddle, and they are meddling.

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