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Officious hands, Russian and French, were instantaneously ready to support it, to fasten it to his uniform.

The boss was an officious looking, uniformed policeman who did not look likely to bend the rules or appreciate my rants.

By April '94 it had a new tongue-in-cheek name: "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle, " or Yahoo for short.

Let the poor old bugger enjoy the rest of his life without having to contend with officious councildom.

As soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs. Elton.

for it makes the persons preferred more thankful and the rest more officious; because all is of favour.

You are rather disposed to call his interference officious ?

and are officious in arrogating for them a praise to which they have no claim.

The fact is, that you were sick of civility, of deference, of officious attention.

Officious immigration and customs officers scrutinised documents and searched cabins for stowaways or illicit goods.

When I returned form abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious young Customs Officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

Because he had no real authority, the clerk acted in an officious way.

an interfering old woman; bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself; busy about other people's business.

When I returned from abroad recently, a particularly officious Customs officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler.

a particularly officious Customs officer clearly regarded me as a smuggler .

It swarmed with lounging waiters, officious policemen, dog-walkerspulled to right and left of the path, old ladies knitting.

An officious little guard came and told me not to whistle in the museum garden.

Mrs. Gas might seem officious , but she means well .

We were tired of being pushed around by officious civil servants.

We were tired of being pushed around by the officious guy.

Active in an officious or meddlesome way.

Scene: The Emergency Room. The officious admissions nurse is again on duty.

She remained the same officious and imaginative Mrs. Penniman, that we have hitherto known.

an officious annoying person who interferes with others.

If the bosses are rude or officious with customers, then employees will be, too.

There are three officious institutes and local groups and centers of Marxism research in Russia now.

I moved because I can't put up with that officious landlady any longer.

He is an officious leader.

It sometimes happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked him: "What is your grandson doing? "

A lot of old ladies are officious.

He was an officious, fussy man with a face like a motor mechanic's

officiously adv. officiousness n. an officious civil servant

officious friends made the job harder