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kibitzers

noun

variants also kibbitzers
plural of kibitzer
as in intruders
a person who meddles in the affairs of others a nosy kibitzer who always knows who is dating whom

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Recent Examples of kibitzers At times, a dozen kibitzers looked on. — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kibitzers
  1. intruders
  2. gossips
  3. gossipers
  4. spies
  5. interlopers
  6. busybodies
  7. meddlers
  8. informers
Noun
  • People often talk about illnesses like cancer as intruders in the house.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Wedging a door stop alarm is another way to safeguard yourself from intruders.
    — Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of intruders
Noun
  • For an adolescent navigating friendships, rejection, identity and belonging, something that never judges them or gossips and is always available can be incredibly compelling.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of gossips
Noun
  • Jessica Simpson has gotten used to gossipers gossiping about her private life.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Definition of gossipers
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
Definition of interlopers
Noun
  • Keyboard busybodies, naturally, expressed their unsolicited opinions in the comments section.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2025
Definition of busybodies
Noun
  • But Lighton doesn’t treat them as sitcom-ish meddlers.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2026
Definition of meddlers
Noun
  • One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • And so every regime invests in having student informers.
    — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026
Definition of informers

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“Kibitzers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kibitzers. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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