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or nosey
1
as in prying
interested in what is not one's own business
nosy in-laws asking about our finances
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2
as in busy
thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited
a nosy coworker sat down right next to us as we were having an unmistakably private conversation
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The couple must contend with a flooded kitchen, feuding family members, a nosy tabloid reporter, a menacing ex, and an international crisis.
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Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
Oddly enough, and funny enough, the nosy aunties, the Native aunties, are always the one that know all the tea.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
Let a journalist act on her instigating, nosy instincts!
—Lisa Kwon, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
Throughout the series, the family takes in Alf and hides him in their suburban home from the government’s Alien Task Force and nosy neighbors in California’s San Fernando Valley.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
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Shannon Carlin, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
Oddly enough, and funny enough, the nosy aunties, the Native aunties, are always the one that know all the tea.
—Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
Let a journalist act on her instigating, nosy instincts!
—Lisa Kwon, Vulture, 24 Jan. 2024
Throughout the series, the family takes in Alf and hides him in their suburban home from the government’s Alien Task Force and nosy neighbors in California’s San Fernando Valley.
—Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
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“Nosy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nosy. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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