My 'nosiness' led me to a dozen of rooms in the hospital. From Wordnik.com. [News] Reference
Dismissing Azhar's claim as mere "nosiness", Mujahid also took him to task for his role in the. From Wordnik.com. [SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator] Reference
Despite African villages 'famed nosiness, no one was the wiser. From Wordnik.com. [Priestess Of Death] Reference
I need help in not buying into her nosiness in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Carolyn Hax: Fiancee's illness makes groom's family ill at ease] Reference
I don't know why I did that; it was just part of my nosiness, I guess. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harriette Arnow, April, 1976. Interview G-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
The latent nosiness and prurience of an entire generation had been engaged. From Wordnik.com. [The Facebook Effect] Reference
How do I tell this woman I don't appreciate her nosiness without being rude?. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Manners: Librarian checks out more than is seemly] Reference
My defense had left me too exhausted to resent what might else have seemed nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
The only thing that really seemed to bother him was any hint of nosiness on her part. From Wordnik.com. [The Metrognome and other Stories]
Even before I considered myself a feminist, I would have considered such nosiness rude. From Wordnik.com. [Remember working women, you’re pathetic unless you have a child…when everyone else wants you to.] Reference
He decided that further nosiness would be impolite and remained silent unless spoken to. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Here was a perceived motivation for female gossip beyond nosiness, idleness, or pure malice. From Wordnik.com. [Gutenber-e Help Page] Reference
Hence my nosiness about how other people experience intuition – or not, as the case may be. From Wordnik.com. [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » On the Drawbridge to “Yes”] Reference
And this mixture of nosiness and prurience will have a worse grip on humanity than any of those. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
Kate smiled in satisfaction, particularly pleased that he didn't seem irritated with her nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Baby In My Arms]
But the thought of facing questions, commiserations and plain nosiness was more than he could abide. From Wordnik.com. [A Small Death in the Great Glen] Reference
In fact, nosiness and prying are unbecoming at any time, and in no one more than in a military officer. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
When it is then in the focus of a television camera, the nosiness then becomes an all-consuming addiction. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Gosselin probably can't answer these questions | EW.com] Reference
They demonstrate the same nosiness about the edges and corners of experience, the same sensitivity toward many kinds of light. From Wordnik.com. [Born of Willful Passivity: The Art of William Eggleston] Reference
For six years she had withstood the gossip, speculation, insinuation, blatant nosiness, and sympathy of everyone who knew her. From Wordnik.com. [Rainwater] Reference
"Don't you think that's her business?" he suggested, granting Gall a point for loving Molly but deducting a point for her nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Father Christmas]
“Oh, nothing like that,” Grace said hastily, then could have kicked herself for giving up such a handy excuse for her nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnet of the Sphinx] Reference
I love the stress of it and the break from routine, the familial nosiness, seeing how everyone has changed over the intervening year. From Wordnik.com. [I love the holidays | Letter Never Sent] Reference
Rural people and situations seem to involve much more nosiness or intrusiveness or overwhelming friendliness, however you interpret that. From Wordnik.com. [Gimp Etiquette] Reference
What follows is a culture of unrestrained nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
Now people can't claim any reason for their nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
Unfortunately, her nosiness and impatience are mine also. From Wordnik.com. [A Fiction-Filled Life] Reference
Of all - wait, I mean both - my faults, I am most aware of my nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Library Web] Reference
Cats are curious, and in this instance that instinctive nosiness got one in trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Blog updates] Reference
This time, her nosiness gets her into trouble and only her lying gets her out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Tonight] Reference
You might call this interest or curiosity or pure nosiness, but, truly, I mean you no harm. From Wordnik.com. [Teapot Tantrums] Reference
I admit looking at the personal pictures was sheer nosiness, but what else is Facebook for?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Meanwhile, antigovernment activists propose a boycott of the census as Big Government nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Opinion]
I even sat in similar court sessions out of poor nosiness and sadly this behaviour was repeated. From Wordnik.com. [Kiwiblog] Reference
City dwellers seem unable to make a distinction between narrow-minded nosiness and civic engagement. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
Unlikely, I know, but I thought I should come clean about my continued nosiness so that you could see if you recognise it. From Wordnik.com. [London SE1 community website] Reference
The museum is next to an imposing Masonic temple, a registered historical landmark, so I wandered over there out of nosiness. From Wordnik.com. [Video Meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor] Reference
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