officialism
Example Sentences
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What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
It is the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, of centralization, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
The description of the intrigue and officialism, the perpetual panic in which the foreign professors at the university lived, given by Hearn in a letter to Ellwood Hendrik, is extremely funny.
From Lafcadio Hearn by Nina H. Kennard
The Government officials of the morning were there, but the officialism was gone.
From Things as They Are Mission Work in Southern India by Amy Carmichael
He looked round the room defiantly, as if expecting applause for this display of sound common-sense, opposed to the coroner's tiresome officialism.
From The Heart of a Woman by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
