Used in a Sentence

nosey

How to use nosey in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for nosey.

Editorial note

It's not because I want to be nosey, it's because I want to know it's going to work.

Examples20
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of nosey gathered in one view.

adjective

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for nosey.

adjective

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

Example sentences

1

It's not because I want to be nosey, it's because I want to know it's going to work.

2

Off topic and a little nosey, but what skills do you have that command 650/day?

3

Always like having a bit of a nosey at someone else's code.

4

\n They very nosey people with bone in their brain. \n\n Kazakhstan industry best in world.

5

Or being read by your employer, local 23 year old policeman, or nosey neighbour? I could go on and on.

6

That's the kind of influence that a nosey prosecutor will never be able to pin on anyone.

7

I hate to be that nosey guy but it's just human nature to wonder when someone drops a bomb like that but doesn't give you much else to go on. Do you think it'll be disclosed later?

8

I don't want to see stuff for the sake of being nosey. I want to understand you better, and to have a better place to start the interview other than "how was your journey here today?"

9

In the old neighborhoods, children played in the streets where any number of people could see them from store keepers to police or nosey old people. In the high rises, they were left completely to their own devices.

10

The negative way would be to say Germans are aloof and Americans are nosey. Or maybe Germans are askers and Americans are guessers?

11

You got good, reliable service until anything went wrong or you tried to change anything or you tried to get a less nosey line to use a modem on or you wanted to use a different style of phone. etc.

12

We" are just bunch of nosey aholes, everything from the guy next door, the generic office gossip to the latest b-list celebrity meltdown. People in government just happen to have both free time and large sums of money.

13

I'm adding false information related to my location to confuse their nosey advertising probe.

14

Since our classification scheme arguably has next to zero effect on someone who isn't inside Australia, their opinions on what we decide to enact are irrelevant and nosey. A variation on "Why should you be able to tell me what I can/cannot do in bed with my wife?"

15

Our nosey old blue-haired neighbor had to comment to another neighbor about how unfortunate it was for us that our clothes-dryer had obviously broken, and we must not be able to afford a new one. What's really funny is that we have a privacy fence around three sides of our fairly large back yard.

16

She's been happily using that fake-id in those circumstances where they are just being nosey and there isn't a legal requirement for an id. Being nosey means they feed that information into databases at companies like Blue Kai. The result is that she has a shadow identity in those systems that is exactly 10 years younger.

17

Rural communities aren't great places to hide because everyone is nosey and tend to be suspicious about recent arrivals. Huge cities are easier to disappear into anonymity.

18

Not that I think you need to worry about kidnapping, but in the city people are acclimated to ignoring their neighbors, whereas in small towns and exurbs there are a lot of nosey busybodies up in your business.

19

> Since our classification scheme arguably has next to zero effect on someone who isn't inside Australia, their opinions on what we decide to enact are irrelevant and nosey. I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic here, but in case you're not: the idea that people are not allowed to have opinions on things that don't directly affect them is startling.

20

Then again my primary use case of github is reading code to learn and having a nosey at how good a coder someone is, so I'm generally looking for the bulk of a program, hence the usefulness of file size and the uselessness of commit comments.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use nosey in a sentence?

It's not because I want to be nosey, it's because I want to know it's going to work.

What does nosey mean?

offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day"

What part of speech is nosey?

nosey is commonly used as adjective.