variants
or nosey
nosier; nosiest
: of prying or inquisitive (see inquisitive sense 2) disposition or quality : intrusive
nosy reporters
nosy neighbors
Examples of nosy in a Sentence
nosy in-laws asking about our finances
a nosy coworker sat down right next to us as we were having an unmistakably private conversation
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Even Greg the realtor (Matt Rogers) comes out smiling with an increasingly lucrative commission from the Morgans, and the nosy neighbor Phyllis (Linda Lavin, for whom Feldman specifically wrote the role) has plenty to gossip about with a slew of new neighbors.
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
Lydia becomes more alarmed and suspicious when nosy neighbor Phyllis sends her security-camera footage from the night before that clearly shows Leslie trespassing on the Morgans’ property.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
One of the performers was dressed as Agatha Harkness, Kathryn Hahn's witchy character who originally disguised herself as the nosy neighbor of Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff in the town of Westview.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
WandaVision ended with Wanda victorious (of course) and Agatha robbed of all her powers, trapped in her nosy neighbor persona.
—Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2024
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Hunter Ingram, Variety, 14 Dec. 2024
Lydia becomes more alarmed and suspicious when nosy neighbor Phyllis sends her security-camera footage from the night before that clearly shows Leslie trespassing on the Morgans’ property.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2024
One of the performers was dressed as Agatha Harkness, Kathryn Hahn's witchy character who originally disguised herself as the nosy neighbor of Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda Maximoff in the town of Westview.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2024
WandaVision ended with Wanda victorious (of course) and Agatha robbed of all her powers, trapped in her nosy neighbor persona.
—Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2024
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“Nosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nosy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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