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the busybody
noun
Someone who interferes with others; one who is nosy, intrusive or meddlesome.
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June 28-July 28: "The Busybody".
Everyone benefits from a monitor's efforts, but only the busybody himself bears the cost.
"My neighbor the busybody once reported another of our neighbors to the Child Protective Services.
The drunks in the line get mad at Filimonov, "the busybody with the camera trying to get people riled up".
There were other problems with the antic, fanatically bien-pensant Sellars, the busybody progenitor of all Adams's theatrical pieces.
After joining in 1988, Doré quickly turned the busybody who spoke her mind into the matriarch of Albert Square, following the death of Lou Beale Anna Wingg).
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Item one: the busybodies who stop people picking wild mushrooms in the New Forest.
If you closed the door, no one, not the busybodies down the road, nor the religious authorities, nor the government could track what you were listening to.
Set in Sicily, it's a tale of two romances and the busybodies who interfere in them, to very different effect.
The busybodies at the village rumor mill claim that Pop took $200,000 of the Prince's signing bonus to pay off his debts from gambling and bad business decisions.
They worry that the new law will be a boon to the busybodies, an odd category of nudity-phobes who like to turn up to naturist haunts in order to be offended and lodge complaints with the police.
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