prying

verbnounattested in dialogue

//ˈpɹaɪ.ɪŋ//

The act of one who pries.

verb

1
Also a form of prypresent participle and gerund of pry

noun

1
The act of one who pries.
That it is wrongful to do a thing in that it is grubby in the way in which pryings for the sake of prurient interest are grubby, does not by itself make doing the thing an infringement of a claim.

Forms

plural: pryings

prune · The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.pry · To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed…Pry · A surname.

prying · The act of one who pries.

PS · Initialism of a number of proto-languages' names:…psi · The twenty-third letter of Classical and Modern Greek and the…psst · Used to call animals.

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