unmeddlesomeadj.n.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmɛdls(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌənˈmɛd(ə)lsəm/ Not meddlesome.In quot. 1852 as n. (with the and plural agreement): people who are not meddlesome, regarded as a class.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > [adjective] > from interference
unmeddling1614
uninterposing1749
unofficious1807
to let alone1826
non-interfering1840
unmeddlesome1852
hands off1860
light-handed1862
1852 J. L. Davies & D. J. Vaughan tr. Plato Republic viii. 313 He hears the quiet and unmeddlesome called simpletons.
1853 W. Cory Let. 21 Jan. (1897) 59 Goodford is..laconic, prudent, unmeddlesome.
1910 Times 16 Sept. 6/1 The greatest possible decentralization in India subject to the general, but unmeddlesome, control of the Governor-General in Council.
1973 Social Service Rev. 47 412 It is clear that these investigators were anything but unmeddlesome good friends.
2002 N. J. Girardot Victorian Transl. China p. xxiv They have continued to be helpful and supportive in the very best of unmeddlesome ways.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1852- to talk of
- to talk of a cock and a bull
- to talk one's way in
- to talk or speak for or to buncombe
- to talk out
- to talk out of one's arse
- to talk out of one's ass
- to talk out of one's etc
- to talk out of one's turn
- to talk out of or through the back of one's neck
- to talk out of turn
- to talk out through one's arse
- to talk out through one's ass
- to talk out through one's etc
- to talk over
- to talk over or round
- to talk poor-mouth
- to talk poormouth
- to talk posh
- to talk sailor
- to talk sense
- to talk sense into
- to talk sense into a person
- to talk shop
- to talk smack