Word Meanings - MEDDLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a meddling manner.
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Meddlesome. Macaulay. - MEDDLER
One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody. - MEDDLESOME
Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - MEDDLINGLY
In a meddling manner. - MEDDLE
misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. Mix, and cf. Medley, 1. To mix; to mingle. More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak. 2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- Barrow. Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - INTERMEDDLE
To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - OVERMEDDLING
Excessive interference. "Justly shent for their overmeddling." Fuller. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - CO-MEDDLE
To mix; to mingle, to temper. Shak. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - INTERMEDDLING
The act of improperly interfering. Burke.