Synonyms of snooping

snooping

verb

present participle of snoop

as in interfering

to interest oneself in what is not one's concern

a private investigator snooping around the abandoned warehouse

Synonyms & Similar Words

• interfering
• messing
• poking
• meddling
• prying
• intruding
• intervening
• intermeddling
• nosing
• obtruding
• interloping
• invading
• butting in
• tampering
• mucking (about or around)
• encroaching
• fooling
• trespassing
• infringing
• interceding
• fiddling
• interposing
• playing
• monkeying
• chiseling (in)
• barging (in)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• avoiding
• ignoring
• shunning
• neglecting
• eschewing
• disregarding
• overlooking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of snooping

An alcoholic drink will give you a buzz, but if someone laced it with something dangerous, a new poison-snooping patch will buzz your skin to warn you. — New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026

Cady had injected some narcotic into a Georgia peach to knock Natalie out ahead of his confrontation with Crystal on the houseboat, but Ray snooping around on the Bowdens’s behalf led to this deadly improvisation. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Her mother has become a fan but didn’t start out that way, unaware her high school had a soccer team until Garbowski went snooping in an old yearbook. — ABC News, 30 June 2026

Besides the risk of Oracle snooping into your business, there’s also the possibility of regulatory capture — that is, because Ellison is so tight with the Trumps, what remains of the government watchdogs won’t stop it. — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 29 Apr. 2026

When Sonny eventually passes out, Chee starts doing some snooping around. — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Mar. 2026

Thornton, a vice president of strategic communications who has worked downtown for 17 years, including a decade with AIMCLEAR, was no stranger to snooping on behalf of his colleagues and his employer. — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025

But snooping signals a lack of trust. — Dr. Cortney Warren, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025

There also are characters straight from the David Lynch school of the bizarre, including the menacing figure who warns Ron to stop snooping around and the bearer of a disturbing story about a manufacturing job that requires being nude. — Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 10 Oct. 2025