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.
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Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for busybodies
Noun
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After fleeing the home, the intruders allegedly regrouped with Dukes, Khiell Dukes, Anthony Ramsey and others to divide the spoils, the indictment states.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
29 Apr. 2026
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The hope is that would-be intruders think twice.—
Nafeesah Allen,
Better Homes & Gardens,
25 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The piece contends that while rumors circulated among political gossips and online, these remained unsubstantiated whispers that did not meet journalism’s evidentiary threshold for publication.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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Local gossips claimed that Chin Ming Tai paid Moy Sing a bride price of $20,000, an astronomical sum for the time.—
Charlotte Brooks,
Big Think,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2019
Noun
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But Lighton doesn’t treat them as sitcom-ish meddlers.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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According to the ministry, foreign spies are infiltrating everything from mapping apps to weather stations.—
Sylvie Zhuang,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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The logline concerns two rival spies who cross paths in a Lamaze class as their wives become fast friends.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2026
Noun
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An analysis of the recordings showed that the parents behaved aggressively toward the divers more often when the human interlopers were staring at the offspring or the parent, compared with when the diver was looking in another direction or completely turned away.—
Gennaro Tomma,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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One 2009 estimate showed that removing the hundreds of thousands of these interlopers in the lower Colorado basin could bring 1 million acre-feet of water back to the watershed.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Busybodies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busybodies. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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