officious

How To Use officious In A Sentence

• Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
• He had a reputation for being politically officious and self - serving.
• Cadfael found something so significant in that arrow-straight progress towards the church that he followed, candidly curious and officiously helpful, and finding Rafe of Coventry standing hesitant by the parish altar, looking round him at the multiplicity of chapels contained in transepts and chevet, directed him with blunt simplicity to the one he was looking for. The Hermit of Eyton Forest
• The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
• I was stopped at the University gates by an officious guard who asked me for my faculty card.
• While I'd been by myself, as I say, I'd even been thinking in Pushtu, but here I had to hold on tight and remember what I was meant to be - for one thing, I wasn't used to being addressed in familiar terms by native soldiers, much less ordered about by an officious naik* (* Corporal.) who'd normally have leaped to attention if I'd so much as looked in his direction. Fiancée
• She walked toward us with an officious stride that dissolved about halfway across the room when she broke into a run. SUMMER OF FEAR
• An officious man forced me to wait by the door as another patron was seated.
• He mistakes Vernon for an officious bartender, Irving for an interfering fellow john; meanwhile, he gets more soused and the situation more fraught.
• I believe that if an officious bystander in 1984 had suggested that, all parties would have denied that that was the case.