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# prying

«prying» in Mova's school dictionary: **too curious about other people's business, and always…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (more prying, most prying)

### meaning for a pupil

Prying means too curious about other people's business, and always wanting to find out secrets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prying/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a nosy person who looks into things that other people keep private, often getting into trouble for it

### examples

- The prying boy looked in every drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prying/#x1)
- Nobody likes prying neighbours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prying/#x2)
- Stop being so prying and mind your own business. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prying/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prying» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prying/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.