nosy
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I ask this not because I’m being nosy or judgmental, but because it matters for what you do next with the funds.
From MarketWatch ● May 11, 2026
As great as the movie-logging social platform is for discovering films, it’s even better for being nosy.
From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026
Ultrarich investors are often nosy about what their peers at other family offices are up to, and which deals they are getting a peek at.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
With a background in psychology Emma happily calls herself “a bit of a nosy people watcher”.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2024
“You’re too nosy to live, Potter. Scurrying around the school on Halloween like that, for all I knew you’d seen me coming to look at what was guarding the Stone.”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
Had Bob Crimo been nosier, he might have discovered that his quiet son was quite loquacious as his online persona named Awake The Rapper.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
On top of all that, your child may be in sensory shock: school is nosier, has different smells, fluorescent lighting, etc.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2021
Someone a little nosier would surely have pressed the exiled National Security Agency leaker on what he held back.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2014
Welcome to the world of real-time bidding, a cleverer and nosier way of selling advertising that is beginning to shake up the online media business.
From Economist ● May 5, 2011
‘Ah-haF cried the BFG, sitting up suddenly in his chair. ‘Now we is getting nosier than a parker!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Ms. Shepard — a journalist who proudly described herself as “the nosiest person I know” — spent the early years of her career as a general-assignment reporter for the San Jose Mercury News.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
With its plans, the airport will phase out all traffic between midnight and 5 a.m., ban private jets and the nosiest planes and abandon a project for an additional runway.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Taken together, they conjure a detailed portrait of life in West Marin, especially the lives of its unluckiest, and nosiest, citizens.
From Slate ● May 27, 2015
Liverpool, which the King Emperor has known throughout his reign as England's second nosiest city, went down last week before Birmingham which is now the only English city except London with over 1,000.000 population.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was the nosiest woman in the world and spent most of her life spying on the boring, law-abiding neighbors.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
