Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Meddle
Meddle verb - To interest oneself in what is not one's concern.
Usage example: please stop meddling in your sister's marriage, even though you mean well
Common collocations
| responsibility | avoid responsibility | meddle responsibility |
| time | avoid time | meddle time |
Both words in one sentence
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After ordering the massacre of Indian villages to avoid them to meddle in your excavations in their lands, then turning on his friends and companions for their betrayal when they tried to stop him.
Source: Video Game / Hard West
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