(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.
Intrusive
Definition:
(a.) Apt to intrude; characterized by intrusion; entering without right or welcome.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the procedure used in this study is a non-intrusive intervention that is an extension of the current literature pertaining to sensory extinction.
(2) Although the debate in the US has led to some piecemeal reforms – including the USA Freedom Act and modest policy changes – many of the most intrusive government surveillance programs remain largely intact.
(3) Depressive symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were hypothesized to derive from illness intrusiveness--illness-induced lifestyle disruptions.
(4) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
(5) Now US officials, who have spoken to Reuters on condition of anonymity, say the roundabout way the commission's emails were obtained strongly suggests the intrusion originated in China , possibly by amateurs, and not from India's spy service.
(6) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
(7) A less intrusive way to make a city smarter might be to give those who govern it a way to try out their decisions in virtual reality before inflicting them on live humans.
(8) Simulated territorial intrusion promoted increased plasma levels of both T and 11KT while access to vacant territories without neighboring territorial males did not.
(9) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
(10) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
(11) Expansion of the sensory area is apparently the result of size increase in sensory bulbs and by intrusion of supportive cells between sensory bulbs.
(12) The investigator administered the Territorial Intrusion-Personal Space (TIPS) Scale questionnaire to measure various feelings in response to intrusions.
(13) Civil libertarians have long expressed alarm that the only judicial body charged with protecting Americans from undue, intrusive federal surveillance so frequently endorses the government's requests.
(14) Flashback patients reported more frequent intrusive items on average and, specifically, more frequent daytime mental imagery.
(15) The purpose of the study was to investigate whether root resorption of the upper incisors occurs during intrusion of maxillary incisors.
(16) Intrusive tooth mobility was recorded on anterior teeth in four adult male animals by linear variable-differential transformers.
(17) The commission's move would grant Brussels intrusive rights over national authorities in licensing practices and scrutiny of member states' monitoring of the companies.
(18) But the system still relies on a high degree of intrusiveness and communal pressure to achieve targets.
(19) Heaviest intrusion emerged within the physical life sphere and the behavioural and activity domain, followed by the impact on global life satisfaction and habits.
(20) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.