peeping Tom
Example Sentences
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"It's like being a modern day peeping Tom," she says, referring to the number of homes she looks inside, all from the comfort of her smartphone.
From BBC • Oct. 5, 2024
The alleged peeping Tom appeared outside a residence on Pearl Street in North Nashville around 6 a.m. on Feb. 1, Feb. 2 and on Monday, the Metro Nashville Police Department said.
From Fox News • Feb. 9, 2022
“This technology is creepy to me in a peeping Tom type of way,” said John Townsend, a public affairs manager at AAA Mid-Atlantic, which represents 1 million motorists in Maryland.
From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2019
Bloom shape-shifts into a lawyer, tyrant and craven peeping Tom.
From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2018
Well, there sat the poor woman,—you see, Mrs. Grundy, that she was no Godiva, nor I a peeping Tom.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
