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  1. busybodiesnoun

    Plural form of busybody.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Busybodies

    of Busybody

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of busybodies in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of busybodies in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of busybodies in a Sentence

  1. Clive Staples Lewis:

    Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  2. Alan Watts:

    But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.

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