eavesdropping

Synonyms for eavesdropping

verb listen without permission

c.1600, probably a back-formation from eavesdropper. Related: Eavesdropping.

Was it right for her to be eavesdropping when older people were talking, the little goose?

Besides, she did not wish her father and mother to know she had been eavesdropping.

In it, his words were not vulnerable to the sono-beam's eavesdropping.

Their eavesdropping vibrations, with audible projection, were upon me.

He did not mean the blinking, eavesdropping humbug to force his action.

Heaven only knows what eavesdropping and relaying he has done.

The whole country studied Brown's letters with the rapture of eavesdropping.

It was as if his hovering soul had been eavesdropping on their thoughts.

Relieved, yet ashamed of his eavesdropping, he ran down the road toward his home.

What he had learned by this eavesdropping he counted of peculiar value.