officious

Speech parts

1. officious - Adjective

2. officious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.

Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.

Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

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Examples

No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. Edward Abbey

I don't like this official/unofficial distinction. It sound, er, officious. Larry Wall

The artist, however faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an officious state. The great artist is thus a solitary figure. John F. Kennedy

Step aside? I step aside for nobeast, whether it be a hallowed hedgehog, an officious otter, a seasoned squirrel, a mutterin' mole or a befuddled badger! Brian Jacques

Censors will try to censor a little bit more each year (because, like editors and other officious people, censors don't feel they are getting anywhere unless they are up and doing). Wilfrid Sheed

an interfering old woman Source: Internet

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