snooping in English

verb

1

investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, especially information about someone's private affairs.

your sister might find the ring if she goes snooping around

synonyms: pry into, inquire into/about, be inquisitive about/of, be curious about, poke about/around, be a busybody about, poke one's nose into, interfere in/with, meddle in/with, intrude on, be nosy about, investigate, explore, search, nose, have a good look, prowl around

verb

pry into, inquire into/about, be inquisitive about/of, be curious about, poke about/around, be a busybody about, poke one's nose into, interfere in/with, meddle in/with, intrude on, be nosy about
investigate, explore, search, nose, have a good look, prowl around
spy, stag, sleuth

Use "snooping" in a sentence

1. Sir, caught this one snooping around.

2. Quiz 144 Foundation Topics 146 DHCP Snooping 146 DHCP Snooping Concepts 146 A Sample Attack: Apoious DHCP Server 147 DHCP Snooping Logic 148 Filter DISCOVER Messages BASED ON MAC Address 150 Filter Messages, releasing IP addresses 150 DHCP Snooping Configuration 152 Configuring DHCP Snooping with Layer 2 Switch 152 DHCP Message 154 DHCP

3. There's a peculiar person snooping around.

4. And he wouldn't like you snooping around his affairs

5. I came in, Alex was snooping around on my computer.

6. 33 synonyms for Curiosity: inquisitiveness, interest, prying, snooping, nosiness, oddity, wonder

7. Are you sure you should be snooping around on her Facebook page?

8. I was just walking home from the liquor store and I saw you snooping around.

9. Commander, I just caught Garak snooping around the access corridor outside the main phaser banks.

10. When your sister Categorically warns you against snooping in her diary, there's no mistaking what she means.

11. Synonyms for Butting in include intruding, interfering, interrupting, meddling, obtruding, poking, prying, snooping, nosing and messing

12. 30 Richard Nixon feared the moral consequences even as he ordered the snooping campaign that led to Watergate.

13. Richard Nixon feared the moral consequences even as he ordered the snooping campaign that led to Watergate.

14. 19 I do not propose to open my own door to any such snooping interlopers, disturbers of my peace.

15. Snooping on Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers Environmental groups soon enjoined other wildlife into the fight: the Red Cockaded Woodpecker, the brown bear, the marbled murrelet, not to mention plants and even fungi