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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nosiness, snoopiness |
| Type of | curiousness, inquisitiveness |
| Derivation | pry |
Examples of prying
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Zach, the demanding director, interviews the dancers, prying into their psyches.
From the sacbee.com
Bit by bit, meanwhile, individuals learn to live with the ubiquitous prying eye.
From the infowars.com
Perhaps British athletes in general could be hidden from prying eyes and lenses.
From the guardian.co.uk
Good luck prying those iPads from the clutches of all those investment bankers.
From the forbes.com
They are your sneering co-workers, your prying neighbors, your insulting in-laws.
From the tennessean.com
The college was entered by prying bars of a window and forcing open the window.
From the washingtonpost.com
Property was stolen from a residence entered by prying open a rear basement door.
From the washingtonpost.com
These will withstand picking, twisting or prying better than lower-quality locks.
From the dallasnews.com
Hidden away from all the prying news junkie eyes is Wallace's sentimental side.
From the thestate.com
- Nosiness: offensive inquisitiveness
- Nosy: 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"
- (pryingly) in a curious and prying manner; "`Do you have a boyfriend,' she asked her prospective tenant pryingly"
- (pry) crowbar: a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
- (pry) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
- (pry) be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- (pry) intrude: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- (pry) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- Pry can refer to:
