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- adverb in a
nosy manner.
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Examples
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Even when having dinner with friends, he seemed withdrawn and often sat quietly chain-smoking as others chattered nosily around him.
'Baby Doc' returned - like he told me he would Marjorie Valbrun 2011
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These ideas would not require the government poking nosily into every corner of our business.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Soros on Principles of Financial Regulation and Efficient Market Hypothesis: 2009
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Her entourage hovers nosily in the doorway to the standard-sized guest room.
Archive 2009-06-02 philip j cunningham 2009
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So, if you nosily want to know what I buy at the grocery store yes, I naughtily included a donut today, you can go HERE...
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Her entourage hovers nosily in the doorway to the standard-sized guest room.
FROM THE SQUARE TO THE PALACE philip j cunningham 2009
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Every time he picks up a new book, I become immediately, pestily, nosily interested in it.
Lesley M. M. Blume: Grande Dames, River Boats, and Bon Mots: What I'm Thankful For This Year 2009
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It was just an innocent animal walking nosily across the leaves.
The Pilgrimage 2009
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Bookstores with cafes are the worst — blenders whirring, milk being steamed nosily, lots of mindless chatter and the clattering of plates and forks and spoons in the background.
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Peanut, only 15, is in the den, shuffling her Organic Chemistry, Calculus and Home Economics books nosily and conspicuously.
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Zach had concocted a story to tell Emily and any of the other neighbors who might nosily inquire about the change of plants in his walkway.
Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark 2009
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