busybody

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• Right-wing Supreme Court justices can now sit back to let their ideological allies in red states delegate the job of stripping women of their rights to greedy busybodies.

• In “The Shop,” a doctor’s busybody wife is the character you love to hate.

• People of color are on the internet just as much as anyone else but perhaps living in communities where no one believes that being a busybody is the key to anyone having a good day is the sine qua non.

• You'd have married me last fall if some busybody hadn't filled your ears with scandal.

• Without playing the part of the busybody, we may study the facts of human nature, and be aware of the developments of society.

• But this was risky; it would bring him in view of a kitchen window whence some busybody might observe him.

• She vaguely knew this lady for a busybody, but she was in a situation which even busybodies might alleviate.

• They may support you, or they may call you an interfering busybody for your pains; you'll have to take your chance of that.