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US
/ˈɪntɝˌɫoʊpɝ/
]
[ UK /ˌɪntəlˈəʊpɐ/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪntəlˈəʊpɐ/ ]
NOUN
- someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
How To Use interloper In A Sentence
- Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the "interlopers" were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, -- especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
- Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
- In much discourse about the Middle East, there is a widespread myth that Jews are interlopers from Europe and the US - white westerners who came to 'colonise' and 'steal land' from the 'native' Palestinian people to whom it rightfully belongs. San Francisco Sentinel
- At any moment, he thought, he would be recognized as an outsider, an impious interloper with no business here. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
- Myself, I spectated for a while out of the window, bemused and amused, an interloper at someone else's surprise party. Ballspenden
- In territorial disputes, the animal who holds the territory usually has a decisive advantage over the interloper. Times, Sunday Times
- Security did not prevent an interloper from getting onto the stage at the opening ceremony.
- For some time I heard nothing more of the Princess of Chiengmai; but it was curious, even amusing, to observe the serene contempt with which the “interlopers” were received by the rival incumbents of the royal gynecium, ” especially the Laotian women, who are of a finer type and much handsomer than their Siamese sisters. The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- His adoption of a soldier's guise gives the usually scrubbed detective a much grungier look, making him seem less an interloper than an authentic member of the poverty-choked netherworld he's infiltrating in his search for the gun.
- Light-footed waitresses pace the linoleum floor slinging babka French toast and eggs with kielbasa, and - mostly - plates of pierogi to a mixed crowd of chatty locals and interlopers.