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Intermeddle :: Intermeddle (v. i.) To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.

Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome..

Supersession :: Superserviceable (a.) Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.

Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.

Officious :: Officious (a.) Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty..

Officious :: Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

Talebearing :: Talebearing (a.) Telling tales officiously.

Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty..

Meddlesome :: Meddlesome (a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.

Taleteller :: Taleteller (n.) One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler..

Over-busy :: Over-busy (a.) Too busy; officious.

Marplot :: Marplot (n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot..

Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Indifferent to obligation or duty.

Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance..

Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..

Overofficious :: Overofficious (a.) Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious.

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Not officious; not civil or attentive.

Nose :: Nose (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

Busy :: Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.

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