Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who watches for an opportunity to hear the private conversation of others.
Wiktionary
- n. one who eavesdrops
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a secret listener to private conversations
Examples
“If protection from an eavesdropper is not considered important, an access control can be as simple as a password.”
“These words did indeed whet his curiosity to the utmost, but the shame of acting the part of an "eavesdropper" was so great that, by a strong effort of will, he drew back and pondered for a moment what he ought to do.”
“These words did indeed whet his curiosity to the utmost; but the shame of acting the part of an "eavesdropper" was so great that, by a strong effort of will, he drew back, and pondered for a moment what he ought to do.”
“It is at this point in the mass that always I feel the most like an outsider, an eavesdropper.”
The Huffington Post: Tim Suttle: An Evangelical Goes To Mass
“Looking around as if suspecting an eavesdropper, he lowered his voice so that only the entire shop could hear, and said: Cut deliberately.”
The Guardian: The art of creating a stink in the dressing room
“I am always on the look out for ideas for articles and am a shameless eavesdropper in the supermarket, on the bus and in the shopping centres.”
“Nog looked around, as if afraid of an eavesdropper.”
“The mother-in-law is an eavesdropper and troublemaker but has nothing to do with this story.”
“Dense conversations that make one feel like an uninformed eavesdropper and leave you scratching your head, wondering if you are just very shallow or if there is actually something profound going on.”
“Three years later, he did the opposite, pulling himself inward to play Harry Caul, the meticulous, introspective eavesdropper in The Conversation.”
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