The word "prying" is correct and usable in written English.
"Prying" is a verb that means to try to obtain information or access something using persistent questioning or snooping. Example sentence: "He was caught prying into the confidential documents."
Keeping us in the dark is not, apparently, about saving the government embarrassment but thwarting people smugglers and protecting asylum seekers from prying eyes.
Deep in the taiga, the Mordovian colonies are well away from prying eyes.
The pro-CCTV lobby argue that they are within their rights to use cameras to protect their properties; the anti-camera brigade argue that their rights are being infringed by their neighbours' prying cameras.
"When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting," Obama said.
Sadly it is a sense of community and connection that doesn't quite extend to the prying eyes of architecture critics: my requests to visit the open-plan social utopia have been politely declined.
Today they make fake designer T-shirts and flog them online, away from the police's prying eyes.
Though much of what lies within is perfectly legitimate, the protection offered from prying eyes ensures that they appeal to kleptocrats and tax-dodgers as well as plutocrats.
A student at Cambridge University in Britain went further, intercepting e-passport transmissions some 50 metres (160 feet) away.That was enough for State Department officials in Washington, DC, to insist that American e-passports be fitted with metal sleeves to shield them, when closed, from prying electronic eyes.
When heading home again, you don't mix with hoi polloi (staying far away from prying camera-phones), but enjoy a private x-ray screening and another trip to the side of the plane in another BMW.
Instead, he was saying that, given the panoply of satellites and measurement networks that are being installed to monitor the climate, it should now be possible to identify the places and processes that hide energy from the prying eyes of climatologists.
Few appreciate the state prying into their bedrooms; but in nearly all countries fertility tends to fall as people grow richer and women are better educated.
