How to Use nosy in a Sentence

nosy

adjective

• Maybe Asha and Ravi want to throw nosy aunties off the scent.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• For all of the nosy curious minds out there, Ant's ex-wife is Louise Anstead.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 10 June 2019
• Chances are, your TV is watching you, too, through a few nosy pixels on the screen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2019
• Kathryn Hahn shows up as their brassy, nosy neighbor, Agnes.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2021
• Agnes, the nosy neighbor, is asking if scenes can be taken from the top.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2021
• Send the next wave of nosy reporters on a wild goose chase down the nearest toilet while this blows over.
  — Mark Lisanti, Vanities, 4 May 2018
• The Dabrowskis bravely lie and stare down nosy neighbors to protect their charges.
  — Julia M. Klein, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• Satchel is his ward Colt, and bristles at Hunk’s nosy questions.
  — Nick Schager, EW.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• Your partner's going down on you, but then a nosy Laird starts tapping at the door.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2017
• The Right Mind-Set: Back at the office, the gossip, the loud talkers and the nosy colleagues are making a comeback.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2022
• Kathryn plays one of her most unique roles of Agatha Harkness, a witch guising as a nosy neighbor.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 6 Apr. 2023
• My gripe is, why do people have to be so nosy and blunt about my condition?
  — Amy Dickinson, The Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2019
• Or your nosy neighbor, eager to poll you on whether that mole on her back looks more like Drew or Jonathan Scott.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 6 July 2018
• Olsen shone, as did Kathryn Hahn as Wanda's nosy neighbor.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• My hours on YouTube loomed large on a bar graph - tsk-tsking me like a nosy, judgmental friend.
  — William Wan, chicagotribune.com, 5 July 2018
• For celebrities, this crowd is their fans and nosy journalists (hi!).
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 29 June 2018
• Luca had been a good sport the whole time a nosy visitor decided to stop by and pester mom and dad.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2021
• When someone has time to sit and around to be nosy in the business of others, that someone needs a life and is surely up to no good.
  — Dr. June Hall, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2021
• And Trump, for his part, doesn’t want reporters asking nosy questions.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 29 July 2018
• The anonymous SoCal resident with the nosy neighbor bought a bluff home 20 years ago.
  — Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 5 Mar. 2023
• Agatha: House of Harkness, centered on Kathryn Hahn’s witchy, nosy neighbor.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2021
• And Wanda didn’t kill her, either; just condemned her to live a quiet life trapped within the role of the nosy neighbor Agnes.
  — Adam B. Vary, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2021
• Kathryn Hahn is an utter delight as the nosy next-door neighbor who seems to be hiding a secret.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 16 Jan. 2021
• With nosy social workers and pursuing aliens banging on the door, the two bond over a shared sense of family and win the day.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• While dragging the body indoors, Gary gets a visit from Sandy (Light), a nosy Christian neighbor.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
• One of the most effective ways to get a nosy reporter to drop a story is to offer something better.
  — Ben Widdicombe, Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2019
• Meanwhile, a detective, the sister-in-law’s boyfriend, and a nosy neighbor follow their trail.
  — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 20 Sep. 2021
• The trend is not reserved for college admissions and doctors and nosy-parkers like me.
  — Brianna Snyder, Wired News, 25 Apr. 2015
• Less than an hour before their arrival, the grounds of the estate, which is owned by the National Trust, were closed to the public to keep nosy onlookers and the press away.
  — Diana Pearl, PEOPLE.com, 18 May 2018
• Couch doesn’t seem too bothered by these nosy visitors.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024