| They can usefully protect trade secrets or safeguard directors from kidnappers or busybodies. |
| The occupants are not commuters, but people belonging to a category lying somewhere between loafers and busybodies. |
| They are going to bide their time until these foreign busybodies have left. |
| We would all be a lot better off if these interfering busybodies left well enough alone. |
| So do benefits investigators, who are fed up with being seen as stiff-necked busybodies or worse amateur detectives. |
| There is a widespread feeling that housing-association boards attract the worst busybodies in town. |
