Word Meanings - MEDDLINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a meddling manner.

Related words: (words related to MEDDLINGLY)

• MEDDLING
  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.