Example Sentences

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Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Storm is the right size," he went on meddlesomely, in that calm British way he has of taking it for granted that whatever he says must be right.

From The Lightning Conductor Discovers America by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)

She carries a duster and toddles about meddlesomely, spying out dust so diligently that whilst she is flicking off one speck she is already looking elsewhere for another.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Shaw, Bernard

He understood all the suspicions that policemen entertain in the case of night prowlers, and knew that they would be particularly and meddlesomely interested in one who prowled with a child in his arms.

From The Landloper by Day, Holman