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Meddle in what could be seen as inept role
Answer for the clue "Meddle in what could be seen as inept role ", 9 letters:
interlope
Word definitions for interlope in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 17c., a back-formation from interloper , or else from inter- + lope (see interloper ). Related: Interloped ; interloping .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To intrude, meddle, or trespass in others’ affairs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interlope \In`ter*lope"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Interloped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Interloping .] [See Interloper .] To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; ...
Usage examples of interlope.
In due timeand not overmuch time, considering the snaillike creep of progress among the Cuban bureaucracy, not to mention the vagaries of sea-borne communication and the exceeding delicacy of treating with such sworn enemies as the European interloping, excommunicant trespassers on lands that Rome had long ago given solely to Spanish-Moorish keepinga guarda costa from Cuba, an armed sloop, had arrived in the basin below El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa with a message from the Governor of the Indies noting that neither the Norse, the French, the Irish, nor the Portuguese would any of them admit to knowledge of this dreadful fire-arming and training of the savage indios .
She radiated the impatience of an expert to one who had interloped into her field.
Umney, the last word was supposed to be my last name, the last word this interloping, invading thief would ever hear in his life.