meddling

1. That meddles.

   Synonyms: annoying

plural meddlings

1. countableuncountableunwanted interference

   It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.

   1835, William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers, page 30

2. countableuncountableAn instance of meddling.

   1 more example

   I learned more about it than most people because triffids were my job, and the firm I worked for was intimately, if not very gracefully, concerned in their public appearance. Nevertheless, their true origin still remains obscure. My own belief, for what that is worth, is that they were the outcome of a series of ingenious biological meddlings - and very likely accidental, at that.

   1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 27

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of meddle