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
• There is no end to the nosy, rude and sometimes stupid questions people ask.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Oddly enough, and funny enough, the nosy aunties, the Native aunties, are always the one that know all the tea.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• 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
• This was an old trick sometimes performed for nosy outsiders.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• 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
• There’s Karen — a name arbitrarily assigned to nosy, entitled White women who use threats of law enforcement to get their way.
  — Theodore R. Johnson, Washington Post, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024