Citations:eavesread

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English citations of eavesread

Verb: "to surreptitiously read somehting"[edit]

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  • 1998, Larry Samuel, The Future Ain't what it Used to be: 40 Cultural Trends Transforming Your Job, Your Life, Your World, Riverhead Books (1998), →ISBN, page 99:
    Lurkers hang around silently in otherwise noisy chat rooms, eavesreading other people's conversations for vicarious fun.
  • 2011, Caissie St. Onge, Jane Jones: Worst. Vampire. Ever., Ember (2011), →ISBN, page 27:
    Once, my mom flipped out when she eavesread an exchange between us over my shoulder.
  • 2012, Seth Rudetsky, My Awesome/Awful Popularity Plan, Random House Children's Books (2012), →ISBN, page 33:
    I decided to eavesdrop. Hmm . . . eavesread?
  • 2013, David G. Clark, book review, Sehnsucht: The C. S. Lewis Journal, Volume 7/8, 2013-2014, page 189:
    Who can resist eavesdropping, er, eavesreading (?) into a correspondence that reveals “classified” plans and techniques that devils are using... on us!
  • 2013, Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park, St. Martin's Press (2013), →ISBN, page 39:
    He was holding a comic called Watchmen, and it looked so ugly that Eleanor decided not to bother eavesdropping. Or eavesreading. Whatever.
  • 2014, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Truth Be Told, Forge (2014), →ISBN, page 94:
    Aaron yanked at his tie to keep it from strangling him, tried to “eavesread” the paperwork on Stephanie's desk to find any clues to Lizzie's whereabouts.