busybody
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Busybody Pinkerton makes more trouble, has more excitement than usual, in a suburban poisoning case.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample playbills during one recent Peking opera week: People's Theater: Busybody Li, the story of an overeager woman on a commune.
From Time Magazine Archive
“The Slanderer, the Busybody, and the Lawmonger, have broken out of their prisons and got free.”
From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Davies, Robert Gwyneddon
Hercules-Harlequin, the Attorney Triumphant, the World's Busybody: none of these are parts this Nation has a turn for; she, if you consulted her, would rather not play these parts, but another!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas
Dissertations: to a meddling person, subject, "The Busybody"; to a poor punster, subject, "Diseased Razors"; to a poor scholar, subject, "Flunk on,—flunk ever."
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
Vocabulary lists containing busybody
With the Fire on High
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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"Oedipus the King" by Sophocles
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