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marplot

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɑːplɒt/Sorted almoprtStarts with MEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A meddlesome person whose activity interferes with the plans of others.

Word origin

From mar (“to spoil, to ruin”) + plot (“plan”). In earliest use as a character name in The Busie Body, by Susanna Centlivre, in 1709. Compare addle-plot.

Used in a sentence

  • “The old marplot has discovered the baby,” Monica whispered. “I suppose it cried and woke him up, and now he thinks he's witness to a miracle.”
  • Unthinking Anglo-Saxons regard him as a Gallic marplot, rather than the great twentieth-century statesman he was – certainly the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon.
  • Let us argue the point with this pert, unruly, marplot conscience of mine…

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