Some busybodyhas been reporting my conduct on a certain day.
It was just the right sort of food for the popular gossip that gaunt busybody had been picking up.
So it passed; but a busybody carried this, with other tattle, to Mr Swift, who questioned me also.
Indeed, Sophia, I trust you will not set me down as a Mrs Busybody (a character I detest) if I say that certain possibilities flashed across my mind at the moment.
Injustice is the habit of being a busybody and doing another woman’s business, which tries to rule and ought to serve: this is the unjust Nurse.
Busybody Boswell—another member—also interested himself (not perhaps without ulterior views of his own as regards her Johnson material) in her behalf.
Nan Archdale led her life without reference to what those about her considered appropriate or desirable; and years had gone by since the boldest busybody among them would have ventured a word of rebuke.
Conscience, but just now so insistent and disturbing a familiar, vanished for a space, nay more, assumed the garb of a meddling busybodywho seeks to discover harm where no harm is.
Would you consider me a busybody were I to try to mitigate this woman's evil influence?
The Derby Winner,' repeated Dr Pendle, reddening, as he wondered if this busybody guessed his errand.
Meanwhile, the busybody looked after the curate with an evil smile; and, gratified at having aroused such irritation as the abrupt parting signified, turned back to The Derby Winner.
Gabriel could not answer all, or even one of these questions on the instant, for the sudden appearance and speech of the Beorminster busybody had taken him by surprise.
And the busybody of Beorminster, I should say,' rejoined the man with a sneer.
Moreover, the bishop seemed to be so utterly unconscious that anyone could accuse him of the crime, that Graham shrank from being the busybody to enlighten him.
Presently a little flirt with two little wings, and the feathered busybody was on the breviary again.
But they mustn't expect anything of the sort," said the Busybody Extraordinary impatiently.
If His Royal Highness desires it," suggested the Busybody in Extraordinary, "you had better let the boy accompany you to the Palace.
The Busybody Extraordinary," he said, "took possession of it immediately he heard that he had been elected King and won't leave it on any consideration whatever.
Busybody Extraordinary suddenly; and everybody else got up and joined in the cry, "Long live the King!
Well, I was going to propose that we should call ourselves Public Councillors," replied the Busybody Extraordinary.
If he can't do his work properly, we had better reduce his salary," suggested the Busybody Extraordinary.
Before they had gone very far, however, Boy could see that the Busybody Extraordinary and several of the other guests were hastily fastening on their wings.
The Public," said the Busybody Extraordinary contemptuously, "will do just whatever we wish it to.
Dee," I whispered, "put your little finger in its mouth and let it suck until that busybody down the hall goes back into her room.
It would be the psychological moment for some busybody to make an inspecting tour--and then, good-by, cake!
We could both see in the busybody mirror a group of excited passersby bending over a man lying prostrate on the sidewalk.
As I moved over to look at the bolometer, I happened to glance into the busybody and saw that a crowd was rapidly collecting on the sidewalk.
It is the busybody whose interference is resented; the brother, once he is recognised as a brother, is made welcome.
In a society like our own, the busybodymay be found among those for whom this law has no terror; they are idle, simply because they have an income which is independent of labour.
Angry men are unreasonable; and he who seeks the blessing of the peacemaker sometimes earns only the ill name of a busybody in other men's matters.
Just say you're tremendously engaged, and can't be disturbed, if that everlasting busybody shows up.
I'm not going to feel dead certain I scotched the busybody until we've left Atlanta and Candler Field well in our wake, with nothing happening to prove a give-away.
XIV BUMPS SOME busybody went straight to Jennie Junebug and told her what Mrs. Ladybug had said.
Moreover, she was something of a busybody and too fond of prying into the affairs of others.
Remember the warning given regarding heeding the advice of every busybody just at this time.
She loses confidence in her physician, she buys certain "cures" recommended to her by Mrs. Busybody and later tries other physicians and ends by losing faith in herself.
The Army Council were, no doubt, responsible in their corporate capacity for abolishing the left-hand salute, but there must have been some busybody who put them up to it.
Mary Busybody never wants a bad day, and Hilary Drone has God to give and bring to her.
A meddlesome busybody who pokes his nose into other men's secrets.
Worse still, not content with the abracadabra of their silly oaths, the busybody members made all the mischief they could during Lincoln's last election.
As usual with such fledgling troops there was no end to the fuss and feathers among the members of the busybody staffs, who were numerous enough to manage an army but clumsy enough to spoil a platoon.
Then must this dear busybody of ours Long for her rest with the close of the flowers.
Else, name the general a busybody when he overlooks his soldiers, and reviews them, and watches them, and punishes the disorderly.
Thinkest thou that he is a mere meddler and busybody in rebuking those whom he meets?
Probably some malicious busybody had become aware of his frequent calls at Four Winds and chose to interfere in his private affairs thus.
But the busybody in others' affairs is not apt to hold his curiosity in such reasonable limits.
A busybody named Kang Si told the newly appointed king that Gen.
Some busybody told the emperor that Koryŭ had no desire to hold faith with China and in consequence an envoy came in haste to Song-do demanding why the people who had fled to the islands did not return to their homes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "busybody" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
