prying Meaning & Definition

  • En [ praɪ]
  • Us [ praɪ]

Meaning of prying In English

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Examples of prying

  • Venues rotated so as to avoid the suspicions of prying neighbours.

  • On 56 occasions, traps were damaged, mostly by armadillos, which escaped out of the traps by prying the door open.

  • With their asymmetry, peering heads and prying beaks, the birds have an amusing and sometimes ironic anthropomorphism.

  • And the creation of a full factual record on any social problem typically involves prying out information that other people are zealously committed to keeping private.

  • However, we are perplexed by the suggestion that metaphysicians may have distinctive tools over and above those available to scientists for "prying" such gaps in any direction at all.

  • Secondly, it might be objectionable by prying into family arrangements under which the dwellinghouse is being constructed.

  • We on this side would like nothing better than to avoid prying.

  • During recent years there has been a great increase in the amount of spying and prying into our personal secrets.

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