Associations to the word «Prying»

Wiktionary

PRYING, verb. Present participle of pry
PRYING, noun. The act of one who pries.

Dictionary definition

PRYING, noun. Offensive inquisitiveness.
PRYING, adjective. Offensively curious or inquisitive; "curious about the neighbor's doings"; "he flipped through my letters in his nosy way"; "prying eyes"; "the snoopy neighbor watched us all day".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne