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Prying vs Meddling - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between prying and meddling

is that prying is present participle of lang=en while meddling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between prying and meddling

is that prying is the act of one who pries while meddling is action of the verb meddle.

As an adjective meddling is

that meddles.

prying

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who pries.
  • * 1992 , Judith Jarvis Thomson, The Realm of Rights (page 280)
    • That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

    meddling

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That meddles.

    • Synonyms

    * annoying

    Derived terms

    * meddlingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb meddle .
  • * 1835 , William Osburn, Doctrinal Errors of the Apostolical and Early Fathers (page 30)
    • It had been well, if these dishonest meddlings with existing books had stopped here.

    Verb

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