prying

pry·ing (pr

ng)

adj.

Insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive: ignored the prying journalists' questions.

prying·ly adv.

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Noun	1.	prying - offensive inquisitiveness nosiness, snoopiness curiousness, inquisitiveness - a state of active curiosity
Adj.	1.	prying - offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day" nosey, nosy, snoopy curious - eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"

prying

adjective inquisitive, spying, curious, interfering, meddling, intrusive, eavesdropping, snooping (informal), snoopy (informal), impertinent, nosy (informal), meddlesome She's a nasty, prying busybody.

Translations

prying [ˈpraɪɪŋ] ADJ (= nosy) → fisgón; (= meddling) → entrometido

prying

adj → neugierig

prying [ˈpraɪɪŋ] adj → curioso/a, indiscreto/a

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They loved to sit there in the silence, with only each other and the sheeny, prying lizards for company, talking of the old times and planning for the new; while light breezes stirred the tattered vines high up among the columns, where owls nested.

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context

With such a smile then, and with a voice sweet as the evening breeze of Boreas in the pleasant month of November, Mrs Bridget gently reproved the curiosity of Mrs Deborah; a vice with which it seems the latter was too much tainted, and which the former inveighed against with great bitterness, adding, "That, among all her faults, she thanked Heaven her enemies could not accuse her of prying into the affairs of other people.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them; conceal your dispositions, and you will be safe from the prying of the subtlest spies, from the machinations of the wisest brains.

The Art of War by Sun, Tzu View in context

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