[
UK
/nˈəʊzi/
]
[ US /ˈnoʊzi/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊzi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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offensively curious or inquisitive
the snoopy neighbor watched us all day
he flipped through my letters in his nosy way
prying eyes
curious about the neighbor's doings
curious about the neighbor's doings
How To Use nosy In A Sentence
- She's stopped talking except for monosyllables.
- Just like my mother can hone in on my weak points with GPS accuracy, teenagers can humiliate me with a muttered monosyllable.
- The second, with its mixture of monosyllables and disyllables - listen, walking, chamber - sustains the alliterative flourish of Melting melodious words.
- But he was not in a talkative mood and chomped his way grumpily through the meal, responding with grunts and monosyllables to all attempts to engage him in conversation.
- He was clearly out-of-place, the only one in a tie, and as monosyllabic as a teenager during most of the persiflage.
- Objective To evaluate Test-retest reliability of Mandarin monosyllable lists with equivalency in audibility in hearing loss group.
- A chronosynclastic infundibulum, from memory, is where everything that could be true, is true simultaneously. Three years and counting - The Panda's Thumb
- Nutritional yeast does not contain human active methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin, absolutely needed in the body. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- The influences of twelve amino acids on S - adenosyl - L - methionine ( SAM ) production by Saccharomyces cerevisiae were investigated.
- She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.