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snoop

noun as in person who noses around

verb as in nose around

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“Miss Lumley. Your snooping or mail delivering or whatever it was seems to have been a bit of bad luck, for both of us. Now my little secret is out.”

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I went snooping around to find out what they were up to.

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Isn’t the whole uproar over Mr. Smith’s snooping on senators’ phone records a “tempest and teapot” given he had to follow rules?

There is something about a healthy personality that feels repelled by a snoop or a snitch.

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One member warned that state officials would snoop around their rural properties to tell owners what to do.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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