How To Use busybody In A Sentence
- If one is called a busybody, it is a negative character assessment. Lynn Casteel Harper: The Elimination Of Busy: The Spiritual Discipline Of Being Present
- The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
- We grasp the poignant loneliness of the elevator attendant, sigh when Rhoda is hurt and squirm at the office busybody's interference.
- I was playing a woman named Mary Worthless who just was just a nosy busybody.
- By 1819 a busybody and informer by the name of Karazin had made a personal collection of ‘subversive literature,’ including Pushkin's verses, and turned it over to the Minister of the Interior.
- The final proof that he was human and his name frailty lies in the fact that he was a busybody. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists
- A BusyBodyBook is a dayplanner for parents, which, although I have no direct experience of it, has got to be a good thing because hello? keeping track of all baby-related activities and appointments and whatever ain’t easy when you’re all bleary from the parenting business that you can’t keep track of in the first place. Oooh, prizes…! | Her Bad Mother
- I am NOT an interfering busybody - leastways I can keep my trap firmly shut on any conundrum I don't know about.
- Mr. Horace Frank Lester, late of Oxford University, afterwards barrister-at-law, author and journalist of the first rank, but at that time unknown to _Punch_, first appeared on January 5th, 1878, with a slashing satire on busybody amateur statesmen which greatly tickled Tom The History of "Punch"
- The first stage test which is applied on the application for leave will lead to a refusal if the applicant has no interest whatever and is in truth no more than a meddlesome busybody.