as in intruder
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden
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Recent Examples of busybody
The names come and go — Gutenberg, Edison, Marconi, Berners-Lee — but the core inquiry remains the same: Are the tools of argumentation to be let alone or supervised by busybodies?
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The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
In that moment, her youth is stripped from her, supplanted by palace protocol and prying busybodies.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Lily O’Neil brings traditional British comedy tropes — the cockney accent, the bustling busybody gestures — to the maid Emmy, to good advantage, though the production has problems bringing that type of comic energy to any other scenes.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
Like the unnamed narrator who finds Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter in the Salem Custom House and then sets about telling her tale, Banks’s narrators are anonymous busybodies and town gossips, nosy neighbors or observers once removed from the action.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
In that moment, her youth is stripped from her, supplanted by palace protocol and prying busybodies.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
Lily O’Neil brings traditional British comedy tropes — the cockney accent, the bustling busybody gestures — to the maid Emmy, to good advantage, though the production has problems bringing that type of comic energy to any other scenes.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
Like the unnamed narrator who finds Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter in the Salem Custom House and then sets about telling her tale, Banks’s narrators are anonymous busybodies and town gossips, nosy neighbors or observers once removed from the action.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for busybody
Noun
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Along the way, Abrahams and his childhood friends the Zucker brothers continued to twist parodic knives into unsuspecting genres, skewering the spy game with Top Secret!Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2024
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Most things, good and bad, come at a price, but because the hazards of intelligence and spy labor are typically wrapped in a thrilling bow, the mental toil of the job is rarely examined.Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
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But a sharp-eyed auto insurer felt something was off about the furry interloper.Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 2024
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For one thing, Sweet Sue and the interlopers head by train not to Miami, but to California.Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
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Linda Tripp, world-famous buttinsky , Dropped a dime on M. Lewinsky.Washington Post, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
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Rather, the story is set in motion by Kevin O’Neill (Rick Holmes), a private-equity manager and arrogant buttinsky who takes an interest in Cara.Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 June 2018
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“Busybody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busybody. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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