be nosy
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I was an only child who peppered people with lots of questions—not to be nosy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
I took that as editorial permission to be nosy.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2025
Sayers had her own insightful elderly “spinster,” Katherine Climpson, employed by Wimsey exactly because no one thought it odd that an older woman would be nosy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2023
In a statement excerpted in the show’s wall text, the Finnish-born Konttinen notes that her foreignness meant “I could be nosy, and be forgiven.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2023
I had been walking the mule out to the barn and slowed my walk so as to be close enough to see and hear but not look to be nosy.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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