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Definition of "prying" []

  • Insistently or impertinently curious or inquisitive: ignored the prying journalists' questions. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "prying" in a sentence
  • "But then they have to say the very same thing when those influential constituents come calling for help in prying some of that evil stimulus money loose."
  • "Well, apparently prying is the correct thing to do, but unfortunately I must have fatigued the metal shaft because it broke off."
  • "The mysteries of the gospel, and the methods of man's salvation, are so glorious that the blessed angels earnestly desire to look into them; they are curious, accurate, and industrious in prying into them; they consider the whole scheme of man's redemption with deep attention and admiration, particularly the points the apostle had been discoursing of: Which things the angels desire to stoop down and look into, as the cherubim did continually towards the mercy-seat."