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Prying

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Noun

1. nosiness, prying, snoopiness

offensive inquisitiveness

Adjective

2. nosey, nosy, prying, snoopy

offensively curious or inquisitive

Example Sentences:
'curious about the neighbor's doings'
'he flipped through my letters in his nosy way'
'prying eyes'
'the snoopy neighbor watched us all day'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Prying

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adjective
intrusively curious
prying neighbours
She thought she was safe from prying eyes.

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Prying

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adjective
improperly curious or inquisitive

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Prying

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adj.
Insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive: ignored the prying journalists' questions.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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