- a variation of nosy.
nosey
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“Madonna, you know how hard it is for us #disabled folk to be getting out to these shows, from ticketing to nosey stares?,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
Before you visit the Google Play or Apple App Store again, there are a few things to keep in mind to keep nosey and dangerous downloads off your phone.
From Fox News ● Dec. 18, 2021
Kevin Phillips said that when trouble broke out on 9 August 1971 his brother was "doing what kids do, you would go for a nosey that's all he was doing".
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2021
A simple response that my husband and I have found helpful when dealing with nosey parkers is: “Why do you need to know?”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2019
“But please, we don’t know very much yet,” said a nosey and snorty kind of voice.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
If something like this were going to happen, it should have been from one of the nosier and “extremely online” kids.
From Slate ● Aug. 27, 2022
Had Bob Crimo been nosier, he might have discovered that his quiet son was quite loquacious as his online persona named Awake The Rapper.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Someone a little nosier would surely have pressed the exiled National Security Agency leaker on what he held back.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2014
Welcome to the world of real-time bidding, a cleverer and nosier way of selling advertising that is beginning to shake up the online media business.
From Economist ● May 5, 2011
‘Ah-haF cried the BFG, sitting up suddenly in his chair. ‘Now we is getting nosier than a parker!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
Ms. Shepard — a journalist who proudly described herself as “the nosiest person I know” — spent the early years of her career as a general-assignment reporter for the San Jose Mercury News.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
With its plans, the airport will phase out all traffic between midnight and 5 a.m., ban private jets and the nosiest planes and abandon a project for an additional runway.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Taken together, they conjure a detailed portrait of life in West Marin, especially the lives of its unluckiest, and nosiest, citizens.
From Slate ● May 27, 2015
Liverpool, which the King Emperor has known throughout his reign as England's second nosiest city, went down last week before Birmingham which is now the only English city except London with over 1,000.000 population.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
