busybody

Example Sentences

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The movie doesn’t quite know how to handle Mabel: She’s meant to be charmingly determined but comes across as more of a scold and a busybody.

From The Wall Street Journal

The third choice is to stay in contact — with or without repaying the $1,000 — and manage him as you would a busybody neighbor or annoying acquaintance who wants to be closer than you are.

From MarketWatch

Your siblings and any other busybody family members would have no say.

From MarketWatch

A bunch of dead busybodies who knew nothing about him and what he could handle, what he handled every day without complaint.

From Literature

After class I played with President Davis’s daughters, nicknamed Dit, Dot, and Dash—the same as the Morse code signals the military used to communicate— because they were such busybodies.

From Literature