Busybody

"Busybody" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Don't be a busybody.

Mary's neighbor is a busybody.

Tom told his busybody neighbour to get a life and to get his nose out of everyone's business.

He's an awful busybody.

The reader may set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess how much this man stimulated my curiosity, and how often I endeavoured to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned himself.

Tom is a busybody.

Don't be such a busybody.

Tom is a real busybody.

Se that none of you ſuffre as a murtherer / or as a thefe / or an evyll doar / or as a buſybody in wother mens matters.

Candidly speaking, I thought her a little busy-body; but her father, blind like other parents, seemed perfectly content to let her wait on him, and even wonderfully soothed by her offices.

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But I couldn’t—and I can’t tell you, either, what it’s meant to me these two years to believe you were going to marry him, and be told every week by some busybody that your engagement was on the point of being announced.

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