meddlesomeness

Another legacy of the United Nations is the meddlesomeness of the international community.

The present report is a typical example of the meddlesomeness and zeal for regulation that characterise the European Parliament.

What nonsense, and what meddlesomeness!

These lawyers, you know; when once they get started ..." He shook his head to indicate the futility and meddlesomeness of the profession. "

Maudlin meddlesomeness.

Daily life scenes in a rural village of Mali: harvest, meddlesomeness, children games, a wedding, a theft, and the clumsy intervention of the police.

The creation of an efficient market system will also require getting rid of what Ms. Desai calls "the scourge of bureaucratic meddlesomeness."

Matthew Arnold described the paper as reflecting the "rancour of Protestant dissent in alliance with the vulgarity meddlesomeness and grossness of the British multitude."

Miss Aleandro is a marvel, conveying both the shyness and the meddlesomeness of someone living in so symbiotic a situation, blushing angrily every time Gaby expects her to translate a remark that's rude.

His defenders say that he was exasperated by Sills's meddlesomeness - she presided over meetings usually handled by the center's president, they say, even when knee surgery forced her to do so from home, by speakerphone.

Goodman played himself as a put-upon realtor, and Jane played "his awfully-wedded wife" (and used the name Sherwood as her on-air character's maiden name) with an endearing mixture of sweet-natured meddlesomeness and language mangling.