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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In October 2021, the family made headlines following reports that three male intruders broke into the Kemsley residence.—
Colson Thayer,
PEOPLE,
4 June 2026
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Garden intruders that may want to snack on your sunflowers.—
Helena Madden,
Martha Stewart,
2 June 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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In 1977, two women living in the United States Embassy in Moscow become unlikely spies.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
12 June 2026
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Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report.—
Sam Metz,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2026
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Our two Yank interlopers spend some time puzzling over what that supernatural secret might be, before all is revealed in a burst of fantastical exposition toward the end of Act 1.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
27 May 2026
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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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“Busybodies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/busybodies. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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