as in intruder
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden
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Recent Examples of busybody
The moment of recognition is fleeting but will soon enough be pivotal to the show — especially as it is cushioned by many a microaggression on both women (one Black, one Jewish) at the hands of the busybody store employees.
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Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 19 July 2024
Conservatives have long scorned Democrats as overbearing busybodies who want to take away your freedoms to make money, own guns, operate a business and cook with gas.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Agnes the eternally perky busybody straight outta TV Land is gone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
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Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 19 July 2024
Conservatives have long scorned Democrats as overbearing busybodies who want to take away your freedoms to make money, own guns, operate a business and cook with gas.
—Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
Agnes the eternally perky busybody straight outta TV Land is gone.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
Until the 1960s, Norton points out, about half of American women of legal driving age never obtained driver’s licenses—a fact the pro-automotive forces exploited in their campaign to paint pedestrian safety advocates as busybodies and worrywarts who just didn’t understand the science of traffic.
—Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for busybody
Noun
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Elon Musk visited the CIA headquarters on Monday for talks on government efficiency, the spy agency director of public affairs Liz Lyons told Axios.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
1 Apr. 2025
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Chilean writer-director Felipe Gálvez, whose debut feature The Settlers premiered in Cannes in 2023, has set his second feature film as Impunity, a spy thriller set in the late 1990s around the arrest of dictator Augusto Pinochet.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
1 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Aziza remains an interloper, both in the drama and in this house.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
17 Mar. 2025
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Some allies and supporters of the president view Musk as an interloper and a recent convert who does not share the same views as the MAGA movement on certain issues, as evidenced by a recent spat over H-1B visas.—
Alex Gangitano,
The Hill,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Linda Tripp, world-famous buttinsky , Dropped a dime on M. Lewinsky.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
30 Dec. 2020
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Rather, the story is set in motion by Kevin O’Neill (Rick Holmes), a private-equity manager and arrogant buttinsky who takes an interest in Cara.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
6 June 2018
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“Busybody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busybody. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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