| 释义 |
ˈsnoopery orig. U.S.
[f. snoop v. + -ery.]
The activity of snooping or prying; surreptitious investigation, spec. into another's private affairs.
1935Sun (Baltimore) 13 Feb. 2/6 C. Jasper Bell (Dem., Mo.) turned the Capitol Hill fight against ‘innovations into snoopery’ upon another law, the NIRA. Thus, the number of enactments now known to contain provisions making public the private financial affairs of citizens was brought to five. 1964Spectator 13 Mar. 337/1 In time private enterprise snoopery could become a growth industry and major job-supplier for our unemployed. 1972G. Lyall Blame Dead xiv. 104 ‘He sounds shifty as hell.’.. That..might help justify David's snoopery. 1981A. Paton Towards Mountain xxii. 187 The rules were simple—no sharing of blankets, the doors to stand open, no boy to sleep in any other dormitory except the one to which he had been assigned. These rules could be evaded, but their evasion was preferable to a reign of snoopery and an encouragement of informers. |