officious
IPA: ʌfˈɪʃʌs
adjective
- (obsolete) Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
- Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
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Examples of "officious" in Sentences
- "officious" lie for some useful purpose, and a "mischievous" lie in order to injure someone.
- There is a kind of officious attentiveness which is really the expression of a species of vanity.
- "officious" action, and how subtle are the changes which can be rung upon the two, but there was nothing of that description here.
- A simplistic way of looking at this would be to adopt a kind of officious bystander test who is stood alongside the states making the treaties.
- Incomparably clever is the satire on the benevolent societies which exist to furnish a kind of officious sense of virtue to their aristocratic members.
- At one time, however, "officious" negotiations were kept up between the Holy See and the Italian Government through the agency of Monsignor Carini, Prefect of the Vatican Library and a great friend of Crispi.
- "officious" by the French journals, and it remains to be seen in which of the two senses attaching to the word the Americans will interpret the interference -- "officious" implying, according to their own Noah
- The Sheriff made a joke over the similarity of the words 'officious' and 'official' to which there was some laughter, at which point one of the court officials sternly rebuked those present with a shout of "Silence in court!"
- Ilicak was recently convicted in both a compensation case and a criminal trial for her article titled, "The immunity of the president", in which she described Osman Kacmaz, the presiding judge of the 1st High Criminal Court of Sincan (Ankara), as "officious".
- All, therefore, that happened amiss, in the course even of domestic affairs, was attributed to the government; and as it always happens in this kind of officious universal interference, what began in odious power ended always, I may say without an exception, in contemptible imbecility.
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