Sentence examples for as a nosy from inspiring English sources

So what should the government do to make the leaker's task — and my job as a nosy journalist — harder?

Kate and Laura adore "Murder, She Wrote," starring Angela Lansbury as a nosy mystery writer who moonlights solving crimes.

Lauren Ambrose has a small part as Mr. Katz's grown daughter; the stage actors Elizabeth Marvel and Domhnall Gleeson (a Tony nominee for "The Lieutenant of Inishmore") are amusing as a nosy neighbor and a handyman.

In the show, which is scheduled to go to the Capital One Bank Theater at Westbury in February, Mr. Lawrence also plays the journalist's assistant, reprises Miss Mary as a nosy busybody and wears a turban as Hodgy, a Hindu taxi driver.

As for the rogues' gallery of celebrity cameos, early fleeting appearances by Mariah Carey and Vanessa Redgrave give way to Robin Williams as a fretful Eisenhower, John Cusack as a nosy Tricky Dicky, Alan Rickman as an oily Ronald Reagan and Jane Fonda in a walk-on as haughty/naughty Nancy.

You could ruin your image, as being a nosy person, just because curiosity got the best of you, and going over there.

After months of pondering the fuss from femmes, of viewing Martha Burk as no more than a nosy neighbor from the Gladys Kravitz mold, you've chosen to bury your head in a fairway bunker.

Blondy heard it first from another neighbor (shades of "the whole block knows"), who included a nosy speculation as to whether the union had been made by online advertisement or some other mechanical arrangement, before he saw her for himself.

The entrapment and destruction of Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart was repeatedly denounced in this space; so was the unconscionable rummaging through Bob Packwood's personal diaries by a nosy Nevada senator who, as retirement nears, has now discovered the need for privacy.

Wish as you may, it turns out Streep isn't a nosy neighbor and wouldn't snoop around the Goop founder's house, despite host Kelly Ripa's goading.

As George Formby sang in When I'm Cleaning Windows, "For a nosy parker it's an interesting job".