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 • Mar. 5, 2026

Elizabeth Kelly, best known for playing busybody Nellie Ellis in EastEnders, died peacefully in Scarborough on 31 December, her agent Scott Marshall Partners said.

From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

In an age when social media increasingly merges our public and personal lives, corporate HQ needs to resist this sort of busybody meddling.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2022

Despite the fact that he was now our closest living relative, he was the last person I wanted to see—a busybody who had once proved to me he was not to be trusted.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson