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Перевод: busybody
[существительное]
хлопотун ; человек, вмешивающийся в чужие дела; любящий вмешиваться
Тезаурус:
- The House of Lords accepted evidence that the NSPCC relied on anonymous informants for much of its work in child protection and held that the public interest in informants coming forward with information outweighed the parents' interest in being able to sue a malicious busybody.
- "As a matter of fact," Kitty said in a carefully careless tone, "There is something you ought to know before that busybody Condon gets on to you about it."
- Then, "Old Busybody!
- She thought it must be some busybody inspector-of-something-or-other.
- A familiar character in the annals of wartime prejudice was the busybody who made a vocation out of telling others how to behave.
- Pry was an inquisitive busybody, but Williams was a faithful servant who kept his master's guilty secret as long as possible.
- She plays the elderly Dame Lettie Colston, a committee lady and general busybody who starts what develops into a witchhunt when she finds herself the telephone caller's first target.
- "Active" had too much of the overtones of the busybody; perhaps, as we shall see later and to change the metaphor, it had even more objectionable side-effects.
- I expect Alice Fell - the real one - thought him a pompous busybody, but she was probably used to being ordered about by "men of ardent humanity".)
- I can assure you that any busybody would be hard put to it to prove maltreatment!
- "Who is that interfering old busybody?"
- Watching him, teasing him, tickling him in the place he liked between his front legs, Nails idled the afternoon away, pushing out of his mind the horrors that lay in wait: the busybody care people poking their noses in, the job he had no fat chance of getting when he was out of school on his ear, no more riding at Biddy's, no nothing at all, not even any certainty of keeping in touch with batty Firelight and her pushy baby.
- She is a busybody who likes talking and has cultivated her own style.
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