intrudernoun [ C ]
uk/ɪnˈtruː.dər/us/ɪnˈtruː.dɚ/C2 someone who is in a place or situation where they are not wanted:
I feel like an intruder when I visit their home.
C2 someone who enters a place without permission in order to commit a crime:
Intruders had entered the house through a back window.
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Unpleasant people in general
- a dog in the manger idiom
- a nasty piece of work idiom
- a tough/hard nut idiom
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- bad lot
- know-all
- know-it-all
- leech
- make sb's skin crawl idiom
- malcontent
- rotter
- runt
- sadist
- scum
- scumbag
- undesirables
- vermin
- villain
- villain of the piece idiom
- viper
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