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Definition of Prying
1. Adjective. Offensively curious or inquisitive. "The snoopy neighbor watched us all day"
Similar to: Curious
Derivative terms: Nose, Nose, Nosiness, Snoop, Snoopiness
2. Noun. Offensive inquisitiveness.
Generic synonyms: Curiousness, Inquisitiveness
Derivative terms: Nosy, Pry, Pry, Pry, Snoopy
Definition of Prying
1. a. Inspecting closely or impertinently.
Definition of Prying
1. Verb. (present participle of pry) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prying
1. pry [v] - See also: pry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prying
Literary usage of Prying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stein and the Era of Reform in Prussia, 1807-1815 by Guy Stanton Ford (1922)
"... his sympathies nearer to Stein than any prying tutor, wrote a sketch of him
as he remembered him then. "There was in all his feelings something intense. ..."
2. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language: To by John Walker (1806)
"prying examination, narrow and close survey superintendence, presiding care. ...
A prying examiner ; a superintendent ..."
3. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"... I feel incapable of prying deeper into the pathology of this disease, and
shall proceed to speak of the treatment, chiefly according to the experience ..."
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