Crossword clues for prying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pry \Pry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pried; p. pr. & vb. n. Prying.] To raise or move, or attempt to raise or move, with a pry or lever; to prize. [Local, U. S. & Eng.]
Prying \Pry"ing\, a. Inspecting closely or impertinently.
Syn: Inquisitive; curious. See Inquisitive.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who pries. vb. (present participle of pry English)
WordNet
n. offensive inquisitiveness [syn: nosiness, snoopiness]
Usage examples of "prying".
He had rolled the powder-keg to a safer distance from the Haubitz, and was prying the bung out with a dagger.
There were sardine and onion orgies on the deserted shore of Great South Bay, and ichthyophagous rites up the beach, far from the prying eyes and nostrils of respectable citizens, where I proved an all too apt pupil.
His expression grew more intense, and Kori felt as if someone were prying open her skull.
William Lorimer more pleasantly as he reflected that he would soon be rid of the prying serving-man.
I was quite satisfied with this, and told her that I would do all in my power to please her, and that the most prying eyes should have nothing to fix on.
With a telephone receiver strapped to my right ear, and my eyes fastened upon the screen of the camera obscura, I would sit by the hour prying into the affairs of the two people in the next room.
This sturdy contrivance, which allows women of good fame to enter the healthful brine without exposing their moistened forms to the prying eyes of oglers, has become my prison.
We assimilate the petty terrors of childhood, we banish them to the nether regions of our pysche, where no prying or force of will or brave desire can penetrate.
The Fauns were slily peeping-- The Fauns, the prying Fauns-- The arch, the laughing Fauns-- The Fauns were slily peeping!
It was a cold summer, and there was a searching, prying wind that sniggled round houses, under closed doors, and down the backs of necks.
Saturday at the hospital, giving blood and urine samples, submitting to the prying of X-ray and sonogram machines.
A flash of disappointment speared her, but she quickly reined it in, reasoning that Takil would certainly have taken some measures to conceal the nature of his shipment from prying eyes.
He then tried to cover his prying by alluding to his desire to engage you in a special service.
Hawkeye had decided that the best way to conceal a patient from prying eyes, as he had had to do in order to keep Horsey Chevaux at the 407 7th MASH, was to let it be known that he was a general suffering from gonorrhea.
She saw Lo Manto on the other side of the car, prying open the back door and reaching in to check on the shooter.