| The occupants are not commuters, but people belonging to a category lying somewhere between loafers and busybodies. |
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| The law will not allow public authorities to be bothered by interfering busybodies and demands personal involvement to guard against this. |
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| We would all be a lot better off if these interfering busybodies left well enough alone. |
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| It will provide a field day for Nimbys, malicious competitors, busybodies and timewasters. |
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| They can usefully protect trade secrets or safeguard directors from kidnappers or busybodies. |
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| There is a widespread feeling that housing-association boards attract the worst busybodies in town. |
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| Do not allow the group's finished plan to be pulled to pieces by ignorant busybodies. |
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| When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. |
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| So do benefits investigators, who are fed up with being seen as stiff-necked busybodies or worse amateur detectives. |
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| They are going to bide their time until these foreign busybodies have left. |
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| And what is to stop lobbyists, axe-grinders and busybodies of all kinds hijacking the whole effort? |
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| They are just happily getting on with their own lives and doing their best to dodge being bothered by all the busybodies and meddlers of the world. |
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| I object to all preachy busybodies, including young coots like Roberts. |
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| Rather, it envisages them largely as urban boosters who will entice business and provide a counterweight to local busybodies who want nothing built in their backyards. |
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| Bureaucratic busybodies in Bethesda, Maryland, have shut down children's lemonade stands because the enterprising young moppets did not have trading licences. |
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| Polio survivors need to listen to their own bodies, not to busybodies. |
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| All those foreign busybodies will take you to task. |
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