Thesaurus results for BUSYBODIES

busybodies

noun

plural of busybody

as in intruders

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 busybodies Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The gunfire killed one of the intruders and struck the other two.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2026
Some also believe intruders would be recognized faster, making the students and staff safer in the event someone from outside the school community tries to enter the school.

— Amy Morin, Parents, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of intruders

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Group chats have—rightfully—earned a reputation as containers for gossips or for the airing of grievances that someone might not want to fully offer out loud to the public, and mine are not absent those things, from time to time.

— Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2026
Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 July 2026

Definition of gossips

Noun

Five categories of spies are described, and espionage is treated as essential to providing rulers and commanders with the foreknowledge needed to make informed strategic decisions.

— Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026
Beyond bioweapons, Russia spies Anthropic also uncovered a Russian espionage operation that used Claude to automate much of its cyber campaign.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of spies

Noun

At the time, my editor and I were assuming that the fandom would be hostile to interlopers who didn’t possess the ancient knowledge of Andi self-eliminating rather than spending one more minute with Juan Pablo.

— Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The interlopers were contrabandistas, Native Pacific Northwesterners brought by American merchants operating out of Hawaii and heading to the Mexican coast to hunt otters without a license.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 July 2026

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