as in intruder
a person who meddles in the affairs of others
a meddler who stayed up all night watching the neighbors
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Not that Miss Manners believes that hearing that explanation — or any other — would discourage a determined busybody.—
Judith Martin,
The Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2025 -
Of all people to hand a secret to, a religious busybody has to be among the worst.—
Caroline Framke,
Vulture,
20 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps married spies, like the ones in Steven Soderbergh’s silky spy caper Black Bag, have the answer.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
6 Mar. 2025
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At the Four Seasons Koh Samui, a five-star hotel overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, staff study guests like spies watching their marks.—
Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz,
Vulture,
4 Mar. 2025
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So will Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, which finds the director — once an indie interloper, now an industry veteran — re-creating the Los Angeles of his youth and using a story of a friendship, aging, and insecurity to reflect on a moment of tremendous change in film history.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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Capys, who are often suspicious of interlopers like me, can also be unfriendly with members of their own species who are not part of their family group.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Meddler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meddler. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.
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