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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermeddle.

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Examples

  • If that lawyer is accurate in stating that the guy can be charged under British law for that, then so could every class clown to ruins a 6th grade class picture by sticking out his tongue just as the camera shutter releases and thus "intermeddles" and "alters" the picture.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • If one State ceases to respect the rights of another and obtrusively intermeddles with its local interests; if a portion of the States assume to impose their institutions on the others or refuse to fulfill their obligations to them, we are no longer united, friendly States, but distracted, hostile ones, with little capacity left of common advantage, but abundant means of reciprocal injury and mischief.

    State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.

  • It intermeddles not, asks no impertinent questions, and transacts its little affairs in perfect peace and quietude.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

  • It neither intermeddles unnecessarily with the affairs, nor pries inquisitively into the secrets of others.

    The Illustrated London Reading Book Various

  • A carpenter need not go to work upon another man's house at all, but if he accepts the other's confidence and intermeddles, he cannot stop at will and leave the roof open to the weather.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • Although a man has a perfect right to stand by and see his neighbor's property destroyed, or, for the matter of that, to watch his neighbor perish for want of his help, yet if he once intermeddles he has no longer the same freedom.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • A stranger intermeddles not with it, and he kept secret his brief lay on that insuperable and incommunicable regret.

    Letters on Literature Andrew Lang 1878

  • If one State ceases to respect the rights of another and obtrusively intermeddles with its local interests; if a portion of the States assume to impose their institutions on the others or refuse to fulfill their obligations to them, we are no longer united, friendly States, but distracted, hostile ones, with little capacity left of common advantage, but abundant means of reciprocal injury and mischief.

    A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 5, part 3: Franklin Pierce 1878

  • Folly has a law and language of its own with which intelligence intermeddles not.

    The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) Marion Harland 1876

  • There are two aspects of the Christian life -- one between God and myself, with which no stranger intermeddles; one patent to all the world.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

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