Synonyms for meddling
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1. meddlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   annoying

2. meddlingadjective

   That meddles.

   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, tamperingadjective

   the act of altering something secretly or improperly

   Synonyms:
   tampering

   Antonyms:
   unintrusive, not intrusive

2. interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodiedadjective

   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. meddlingadjective

   Synonyms:
   interfering, intermeddling, pragmatical, officious

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1. meddlingnoun

   Synonyms:
   interference, intrusion, intermeddling

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1. List of paraphrases for "meddling":

   interference, entangling, interfering, intrusion, intervention

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1. Lindsey Graham:

   Missed opportunity by President Trump to firmly hold Russia accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a strong warning regarding future elections. This answer by President Trump will be seen by Russia as a sign of weakness and create far more problems than it solves.

2. Noam Chomsky:

   Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

3. Dan Coats:

   We continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by Russia to try to weaken and divide the United States, the President has specifically directed us to make the matter of election meddling and securing our election process a top priority.

4. John Forman:

   It's not just prices, it's also government meddling, they expected subsalt cash to keep them in power for years, what did we get? In short, a disaster.

5. Petro Poroshenko:

   This is not just our take. The Russian meddling to influence Ukraine's elections is well under way.