be a busybody

Example Sentences

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But I don’t want to be a busybody either!

From Slate • Oct. 3, 2017

But because I think this is not dangerous, I think that this women would be a busybody or a tattle-tale doing it.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2011

Not because you can't, not because it's illegal, not because you're not interested; to be human is to be a busybody.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be a busybody has come in to worry you, who never bought a cent's worth of you or anybody else whom you know; nevertheless her tongue is an advertisement.

From The Golden Censer The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by McGovern, John

If you must be a busybody say that.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar