What's the difference between busybody and encroacher?
Busybody
Definition:
(n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If that's the case, then doesn't logic suggest that we should be proposing to Lord Justice Leveson a new body which would offer a plausible and effective alternative to all these busybodies who are just dying to interfere.
(2) She got rather cross with Simon Schama recently for what she saw, in his writings about early Dutch culture, as a faulty sense of Calvinism - "the dear old song of Renaissance Europe" as she calls it - and confronted him on a panel in New York for characterising Calvinists as a bunch of joyless busybodies.
(3) "Some people might know me as the 'busybody mother', that kind of thing," she says.
(4) In the latter, he played Martin Bryce, a fussy busybody unusually preoccupied with law and order.
(5) Sally’s transformation from snobby busybody to the knicker factory’s answer to Hillary Clinton is now complete and she always has one eye on boosting her political profile.
(6) By extension, Dawson argues, that applies to our views on parenting too: we don't value it adequately, and tie ourselves in knots, with those inclined to blame the parents for the actions of anti-social children simultaneously arguing that parenting is intrinsic and the state and the professionals should lay off and take their busybodying views on compulsory nursery rhymes with them.
(7) Prosecutors have portrayed the defendant as a neighbourhood busybody and an overzealous vigilante who profiled, pursued and shot Martin as he walked through the development to the house of his father's friend in a hooded top.
(8) But do be aware that random people will continually harangue you with probing, personal questions, like, “What are you up to at the moment?” It is perfectly acceptable to respond to these busybodies with a casual, “Oh, I’ve just got back from India.” Even if you got back two years ago and you told everyone it was travelling but it was actually a holiday and you came home early because you got touched up in a market.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest George Osborne says boosting aid, defeating smuggling gangs and tackling the conflict in Syria are key in solving the migrant crisis, and offering asylum to refugees is only one part of the solution The all-powerful busybodies of Brussels are relatively impotent when it comes to immigration.
(10) The all-powerful busybodies of Brussels are relatively impotent when it comes to immigration The seven countries of central Europe and the Baltic are being asked to take fewer than 30,000.
(11) The "localism" agenda, close cousin to the Big Society, is forgotten; instead, war is declared on those supposedly parochial town hall busybodies who stand in the way of growth and investment.
(12) The Spectator rather cruelly called him "the Mary Whitehouse of our day", as if the religious debate had turned him into a busybody bore.
(13) And yet the latest batch of public health busybodies, Action on Sugar , think differently.
(14) This tangled triangle of unelected busybodies claims to have the interests of the planet and the countryside at heart, but it is increasingly clear that it is focusing on the wrong issues and doing real harm while profiting handsomely,” he wrote.
(15) "This tangled triangle of unelected busybodies claims to have the interests of the planet and the countryside at heart, but it is increasingly clear that it is focusing on the wrong issues and doing real harm while profiting handsomely," he wrote.
(16) Like the last village in Gaul that resists the occupying forces of the Romans, there will always be a group of smokers who do so not only because it can relax one wonderfully (think of all the soldiers who smoke) but precisely because it enrages an enormous number of busybodies.
(17) She made the cover of the New York Post, which apparently had a reporter or stringer or citizen journalist or busybody in the park at the time.
(18) This act is a powerful mechanism for shrinking government, amid Pickles' ritual abuse of "bureaucrats" and "town hall busybodies".
(19) Just another boring busybody telling people how to live.
(20) In any case, regulations are for busybodies, especially in areas as controversial as climate change and air quality.
Encroacher
Definition:
(n.) One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
Example Sentences:
(1) Histiocytes, lymphocytes, immunoblasts, and plasma cells were present in expanded paracortical regions which encroached on, and occasionally effaced, lymphoid follicles.
(2) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
(3) Many Hong Kong residents fear that Beijing – which governs the region under the principle of "one country, two systems" – has been encroaching on their civil liberties, free press and independent judiciary.
(4) The increased tongue width will cause encroachment of the oropharyngeal airway below the level of the soft palate.
(5) But while the £1bn deal was the first of its kind, the private sector has long encroached on the NHS.
(6) It seems to be associated with structural abnormalities encroaching upon the trigeminal nerve, gasserian ganglion, or root entry zone.
(7) Cryosurgical iridocyclectomy is recommended for excision of small discrete iris tumors that encroach on the anterior ciliary body.
(8) The Palestinians see this as Jewish encroachment on the site, the holiest in Judaism and the third holiest in Islam, while Jewish activists like Glick say they are being discriminated against by limiting their chances to pray atop the mount.
(9) Leaf growth will slow with encroaching cold and decreasing light, but chard will generally manage to keep producing some harvest when fresh greens are sparse.
(10) The decrease in synaptic contact length along the proximal parts of terminal branches, in which this occurs, is mostly due to a decrease in the length of close opposition (less than 0.2 micron) between the nerve terminal membrane and the postsynaptic membrane: the decrease in more distal parts of branches is due to the progressive encroachment of Schwann cell processes between the presynaptic and postsynaptic membranes as well as a decrease in synaptic contact length.
(11) These narrow the posterior portion of the spinal canal and encroach on the lateral recesses.
(12) All three types eventually fail due to thrombosis, either because of their inherent thrombogenicity or because of encroachment of tissue (intimal hyperplasia) (IH) into the lumen of the graft at the point where the natural and prosthetic vessel join.
(13) Angiography also aided in differentiating hard central osteophytic from soft tissue encroachment on the spinal cord caused by herniation of a disc or thickening of the posterior longitudinal ligament.
(14) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(15) Similarly anastomotic methods which encroach on the ileal circumference by creating an inverted edge can be expected to reduce resultant capacity by 10 per cent or more.
(16) Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mediastinal tumor mass that almost totally compressed the right main pulmonary artery and also encroached upon the left pulmonary artery.
(17) This procedure decreases the likelihood of dorsal necrosis over the middle phalanx, since the dorsal neurovascular bundle is not encroached upon.
(18) Seminiferous tubules had decreased tubule diameters, hyalinized tubule walls, and occluded lumina owing either to epithelial encroachment or cellular debris and exfoliated round germ cells.
(19) This most often occurs at the site of atherosclerotic plaques encroaching on the lumen to a variable extent.
(20) Third, a hemoglobin or hematocrit within the normal range constitutes a natural buffer against encroachments upon the oxygen supply from non-Hb causes.