Busybody vs Intrusive

Busybody [ ˈbɪz iˌbɒd i ]

A busybody, do-gooder, meddler, or marplot is someone who meddles in the affairs of others.

• a person who pries into or meddles in the affairs of others.
• a meddlesome, prying, or officious person

Intrusive [ ɪnˈtru sɪv ]

Intrusive may refer to:

• tending or apt to intrude; coming without invitation or welcome intrusive memories of a lost love.
• characterized by or involving intrusion.
• intruding; thrusting in.
• Geology.
• (of a rock) having been forced between preexisting rocks or rock layers while in a molten or plastic condition.
• noting or pertaining to plutonic rocks.
• Phonetics.
• excrescent (def. 2).
• characterized by intrusion or tending to intrude
• (of igneous rocks) formed by intrusion

• buttinsky
• eavesdropper
• fink
• gossip
• intruder
• meddler
• newsmonger
• rubberneck
• scandalmonger
• snoop

• invasive
• nosy
• forward
• interfering
• meddlesome
• meddling
• presumptuous
• protruding
• prying

• 1. Some interfering busybody had rung the police.
• 2. He's an interfering old busybody - who I go out with is none of his business!
• 3. She's an interfering old busybody!
• 4. He's an interfering old busybody!
• 5. Paltrow plays a spoiled young busybody who makes a disastrous stab at matchmaking.
• 6. She's an interfering busybody!
• 7. But busybody bureaucrats on Basingstoke council didn't share this enthusiasm for the old red, white and blue.
• 8. I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
• 9. To them, she appeared an interfering busybody, a pushy incomer meddling with their heritage.
• 10. He's an interfering busybody!

• 1. They found the television cameras too intrusive.
• 2. The cameras were not an intrusive presence.
• 3. When Alison was at home she was an intrusive presence.
• 4. On this occasion the press have not been intrusive and they have shown great tact.
• 5. In doing this try not to become too intrusive.
• 6. The photographers were pushy and intrusive.
• 7. Government would be smaller and less intrusive.
• 8. As you expand the dialogue, without being intrusive, you begin to build his confidence in you.
• 9. It is only when intrusive ethologists steal and hatch eggs that the wide tolerance of the goslings is revealed.
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