Hyphenation of prying

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word prying? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

pry-ing

Definitions of prying:

1.	Offensive inquisitiveness
2.	Offensively curious or inquisitive Curious about the neighbor's doings He flipped through my letters in his nosy way Prying eyes The snoopy neighbor watched us all day

Synonyms of prying:

adj	nosy, nosey, snoopy, curious
noun	nosiness, snoopiness, curiousness, inquisitiveness

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

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