How to Use busybody in a Sentence

busybody

noun
  • The neighborhood busybody is telling everyone that the couple up the street is getting divorced.
  • There isn't much that can get this busybody to do that without complaint.
    — Nicola Dall'asen, Allure, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Then this busybody guy stepped forward out of nowhere and shook his head sadly at the large dent on the side of my car.
    — Kerry Slattery, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • This sort of busybody theater world contained within a few block radius.
    — Paige Darrah, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Some are being friendly, but a couple of them are busybodies.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2019
  • She constantly gets harassed by some busybody aunt or uncle, but our parents are the worst.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Seeing something and saying something, in this day and age, isn't being a busybody.
    — Lynn Petrak, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2017
  • His mother, who stayed home before getting work in a blood lab, was known in the neighborhood as a busybody with a big heart.
    — Matthew Van Meter, The New Republic, 17 June 2019
  • Agnes the eternally perky busybody straight outta TV Land is gone.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2024
  • In that moment, her youth is stripped from her, supplanted by palace protocol and prying busybodies.
    — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Don’t wait for your busybody inquisitor to react to your explanation.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • There's the side-eye from busybody strangers, in disapproval of a coffee order or workout routine (or lack thereof).
    — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 8 June 2021
  • Things get proper mannered in this Jane Austen story about a busybody perfecting the art of meddling.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Habte might be considered a busybody in any other context, a meddler too interested in the lives of others.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021
  • This style of browsing is distinct from the hunter and the busybody, as the dancer weaves a path through new information across broad subjects that have some tangible link.
    — New Atlas, 27 Oct. 2024
  • That is, until busybody neighbors, and eventually the police, got involved.
    — Luke O'Neil, Esquire, 23 May 2017
  • Claire was initially surprised that this busybody had assumed the role of her official helper without an invitation.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The German people have been advised by a joy sucking group of foodstuff busybodies to reduce their sausage consumption to a single wurst.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 8 June 2023
  • The evidence about the Omicron variant should be a rebuke to busybody bureaucrats determined to lock down the nation.
    — WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
  • The busybody neighbor was hilarious.
    — Marisa Silver september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Australian shepherd is another busybody herding breed that sets itself apart with its people skills and protective nature.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 18 Apr. 2013
  • But Julie seems a victim here of Hedda’s artillery rather than a busybody relative anxious to extend the family line.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
  • And Hermann Prey, a distinguished veteran, as Beckmesser, the town busybody.
    — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Pharmacist by trade and busybody by nature, Splichal joined the Changing Footprints team and eventually brought it to the south side.
    — Justin L. MacK, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Conservatives have long scorned Democrats as overbearing busybodies who want to take away your freedoms to make money, own guns, operate a business and cook with gas.
    — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Winnie, based on certain aspects of his voluble mother, is a busybody who wonders about religion, the way things look, and the way the universe turns, without knowing much about herself.
    — The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
  • For the second half of the show, the busybody conceit is largely jettisoned in favor of the guys doing an ensemble act in a place called the Funky Butt Club.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Some will call it a dramedy (a drama with some comedy) as lighter moments include a busybody lady, played by Barbara Lohr, who constantly manages to get in the way.
    — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Designer Lauryna Tamošaitytė got tired of running on too few hours of sleep and launched a fun-spirited loungewear line to encourage busybodies to get quality rest.
    — Stephan Rabimov, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Fiona Shaw plays the maiden sister of Roger Muldoon, friend of Grace, general busybody, possessor of zero ability to read a room.
    — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024

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