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capricious

capricious 1 : governed or characterized by impulse or whim: as a : lacking a rational basis b : likely to change suddenly 2 : not supported by the weight of evidence or established rules of...

beneficiary

beneficiary pl: -ries : a person or entity (as a charity or estate) that receives a benefit from something: as a : the person or entity named or otherwise entitled to receive the principal or income...

privatize

privatize -tized -tiz·ing : to make private ;esp : to change (as a business or industry) from public to private control or ownership pri·va·ti·za·tion [prī-və-tə-zā-shən, -tī-] n

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nosy

Offensively or intrusively curious prying nosey as he flipped through my letters in his nosy way

Inspection

The act or process of inspecting or looking at carefully a strict or prying examination close or careful scrutiny investigation

Emissitious

Looking or narrowly examining prying

nosey

Offensively or intrusively curious prying nosy as a nosy neighbor

misrepresent

misrepresent : to make a misrepresentation about vi : to make a misrepresentation mis·rep·re·sen·ta·tive [-re-pri-zen-tə-tiv] adj mis·rep·re·sen·ter n

Mainprize

Mainprize [fr. main, Fr., and pris, taken]. The writ of mainprize, manucaptio, was a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties for a prisoner's appearance, usually called mainpernors, and to set him at...

Esnecy

Esnecy [fr. 'snesia, Lat.], a private prerogative allowed to the eldest coparcener, where an estate descended to daughters for want of an heir male, to choose first after the inheritance is divided, Fleta, 1. 5, c....

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