[ UK /bˈɪzɪbˌɒdi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who meddles in the affairs of others
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How To Use busybody In A Sentence

  • She was a busybody who took on everybody, and audiences loved it.
  • The gossip, the busybody, the scandalmonger is the worst pest that infests the average town and village. Practical Ethics
  • Mrs. Paul was a stay-at-home mom, longtime Girl Scout troop leader and self-described "busybody" who prided herself on knowing exactly what everyone was doing.
  • Regarding the mother of my neighbour, apparently, the busybody is actually living in her daughter’s house and the daughter, who has lived here for many years, knows the rules and has been more than happy to report other people who have had guests staying longer than they should. 2010 June « Mudpuddle
  • The prosecution alleges he also spread rumours that another neighbour was a busybody, who had shopped local members of the community to the police.
  • I was playing a woman named Mary Worthless who just was just a nosy busybody.
  • Though he is too great and important to be called a busybody, we still feel sympathetically something of the suppressed irritation and sense of hindrance and interruption with which the lords must have regarded this companion with his "devout imaginations," whom they dared not neglect, and who was sure to get the better in every argument, generally by reason, but at all events by the innate force of his persistence and daring. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
  • Forty Days by Kathy KachelriesJuly 24th, 2006 “She likes the rain, ” Ms. Jones explained to her neighbor when the woman called in a panic, yelling that Xue had spent the last six hours sprawled across the top of the house ‘looking like a half-drowned corpse. †™ She scowled at the shrill, busybody voice, but saved her choice words for the sound of the dial tone after Mrs. Hatter had been disconnected. 365 tomorrows » Kathy Kachelries : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • I know how they tend to regard me, a busybody where Matthew's concerned, a nuisance. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
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