Meaning & use
Intermeddling
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Interfering in matters that are not one's concern, especially in an unwelcome or officious way.
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The neighbors resented her intermeddling in their family disputes.
He was accused of intermeddling in the estate's affairs before the will was settled.
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"Intermeddle" is an older, slightly formal variant of "meddle," often used in legal contexts describing unauthorized interference with an estate or property.
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