meddle

Verb

Meaning

To mix; to mingle.

To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- / a good sense.

To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle in the lives of others. Symeon the New Theologian

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. Karl Kraus

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. William Faulkner

Meddle not with another man's matter. English Proverb

Don't meddle with a family feud. African Proverb

Meddle not in what you don't understand. Portuguese Proverb

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