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
The late Janet Malcolm memorably proclaimed that a biographer is like a “professional burglar” attempting to break into and enter a life — a busybody and voyeur masked in “an apparatus of scholarship.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
“Quisqueya is a busybody, but it’s only because she’s so insecure. She doesn’t know how to connect with people. Don’t let her put you off.”
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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With the Fire on High
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The Book of Unknown Americans
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