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Definition of Busybodies
1. busybody [n] - See also: busybody
Lexicographical Neighbors of Busybodies
Literary usage of Busybodies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"busybodies WHO, knowing nothing, claim to know it all. What each intends, or will
intend, they know. What in the queen's ear the king said, they know. ..."
2. Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged by Walter Baxendale (1888)
"busybodies, Lesson for. A man who had become rich by his own exertions, was asked
by a friend the secret of his success. "I have accumulated," replied he, ..."
3. The Atonement Between God and Manby Charles Taze Russell by Charles Taze Russell (2000)
"Through self-conceit they are judging others, gossiping busybodies in other men's
matters, though evidencing thorough incapacity for the management of their ..."
4. Oxford by Andrew Lang (1890)
"If any word in these papers has been unkindly said, it has only been spoken, I
hope, of the busybodies who would make Oxford cease to be herself; ..."
5. Lectures to working men by Hugh Stowell Brown (1870)
"Thus there are various kinds of busybodies, some to be approved and some to ...
I do not say let us not be busybodies at all; I say, by all means let us be ..."
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