as in intruder
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden
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Recent Examples of busybody
Conservatives have long scorned Democrats as overbearing busybodies who want to take away your freedoms to make money, own guns, operate a business and cook with gas.
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Agnes the eternally perky busybody straight outta TV Land is gone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
The names come and go — Gutenberg, Edison, Marconi, Berners-Lee — but the core inquiry remains the same: Are the tools of argumentation to be let alone or supervised by busybodies?
—The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
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Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Agnes the eternally perky busybody straight outta TV Land is gone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
The names come and go — Gutenberg, Edison, Marconi, Berners-Lee — but the core inquiry remains the same: Are the tools of argumentation to be let alone or supervised by busybodies?
—The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for busybody
Noun
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The 10 best books of December include a spy novel, essays by physicist Alan Lightman, and a group biography of four women scientists in Nazi Germany.Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Jan. 2025
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Essay Spook Stories: All Writers are Spies Jason McBride Ian McEwan’s Sweet Tooth takes the spy novel to metafictional new heights.Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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But that doesn’t mean the conference title chase can’t have its own intrigue, and the Utes are well-positioned as an interloper to shake up the Big 12 hierarchy.Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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The whole tone of the process tends to treat any developer as an evil interloper who is trying to do something bad and must be controlled and pushed to do something good in order to proceed.Joshua Stein, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024
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Linda Tripp, world-famous buttinsky , Dropped a dime on M. Lewinsky.Washington Post, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
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Rather, the story is set in motion by Kevin O’Neill (Rick Holmes), a private-equity manager and arrogant buttinsky who takes an interest in Cara.Jesse Green, New York Times, 6 June 2018
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