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Busybodies

Busybody \Bus"y*bod`y\ (-b[o^]d`[y^]), n.; pl. Busybodies (-b[o^]d`[i^]z). One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

And not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
--1 Tim. v. 13.

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busybodies

n. (plural of busybody English)

Usage examples of "busybodies".

All these busybodies, moral detectives, jailers of the human spirit, what will they say?

Those infernal busybodies are probably just panting to poke their noses in, and half of them are magi, curse them.

The busybodies in this town would never stop talking if they could see you now.

Prywell was more taken up with his own matters at home, far more than the greatest busybodies are with other men's matters abroad.

Granting even that these busybodies can decide whose lives are clean enough for that eminently clean atmosphere, politics, must it follow that saloon-keepers belong to the same category?

The idea is to get you together with him for completely free conversation—no officials around, no busybodies, no journalists.

I know my aunts are tiresome old busybodies but it's tiresome old busybodies who always seem to cause all the trouble.

A couple of busybodies on Earth are prancing around and making a fuss about my being assigned to this mission, on the grounds that I never even had a course in alien psych.