0 present participle of pry --
2 to move or lift something by pressing a tool against a fixed point: --
I wonder whether this will mean that we can expect some protection of privacy from excessive media prying—eventually through case law.
This is a very fine principle in all educational establishments, and keeps a lot of prying eyes out of the way.
Talk about investigation—it is not investigation: it is prying.
It occasionally results in social workers being accused of prying into issues that they should not investigate.
My prying eyes were not able to find them out.
No one is exempt from this sort of policy of prying into his own individual affairs.
She bought another property backing on to hers so as to protect her son from the prying eyes of neighbours.
During recent years there has been a great increase in the amount of spying and prying into our personal secrets.
