Meanings of pry too in anglès

And who would pry too closely into these secret matters?

But into this part of our subject it may not be well to pry too closely.

Into Colonel Musgrave's mental processes during this period it will not do to pry too closely.

Well, well; let's not pry too deeply.

The two women understood one another well enough not to pry too closely into each other's secrets.

She couldn't for the life of her make out, but she did not want to pry too curiously into his private affairs.

He had lived in the West long enough to know that it is an ill thing to pry too curiously into any man's past.

And I have to stop him prying too much data out of me.

He never pryed too closely into the early lives of his associates, but Milsom's history was public property.

David, by prying too far herein with his own wisdom, had almost caught a fall (Psa 73).

He could make a great show of industry with books and foolscap, and nobody pryed too closely into the result.

"Do not think me inquisitive; in these times men should not pry too closely."

For some reason, possibly because I was prying too deeply into its secrets, it had decided to destroy me and my works.

Neither the Newhouse magazine-and-newspaper empire nor Rosenthal's Times was in those days conspicuous for prying too deeply into the shadows surrounding Cohn or Trump.

"I'm glad you did," he said simply, not wanting to pry too much or revive old hurts.

"If it's not prying too much..."