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snoopy
adjective
informaldisapprovinguk /ˈsnuː.pi/ us /ˈsnuː.pi/
trying to discover things or find out information about someone or something secretly:
He has been exposed as a fraud by a snoopy 14-year-old.
In the film she plays a snoopy reporter who is determined to reveal the truth.
When she questioned him about where he'd been, he accused her of being insecure and snoopy.
So much about the situation feels more like snoopy government than real security.
The problems in their marriage were exposed by snoopy FBI agents.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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anti-bug
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intel
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spy on someone/something
tail
tap
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