Definitionadj. intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Last update: December 31, 2015
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Our nervous laughter was cut short by his officious manner ! [adjective]
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All it would take was an officious referee for there to be potentially explosive results. [adjective]
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This idea so much hurt and vexed her, that she half-wished the officious assistance of Lovel and Ochiltree had been absent upon the preceding evening. [adjective]
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Heyward had too recently witnessed a frightful instance of the prompt punishments of the people into whose hands he had fallen to hazard an exposure by any officious boldness. [adjective]
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Officious hands, Russian and French, immediately seized the cross and fastened it to the uniform. [adjective]
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All retreated,--Jenny with her usual air of officious simplicity, Lady Emily and the chaplain with that of awakened curiosity. [adjective]
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Ion's suspicions at once fell upon the obsequious servant of Cr [adjective]
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I was in the mood for being useful, or at least officious, I think, for I now drew near him again. [adjective]
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It was governed by three aediles: Horace's jest against the officious praetor (sic) is due to the exigencies of metre (Th. [Please select]
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Oh, curse all officious meddling with other people's affairs. [Please select]
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The guard was thoroughly on the qui vive by that time, if not suspicious, then officious. [Please select]
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