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officious

adjective as in self-important, dictatorial

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This will minimize your contact with the person in question and, as an added bonus, annoy her as being bureaucratic and officious.

Catton never shows, she tells, wagging on in the most officious way.

His likely successor, Ayman al-Zawahri, is cold, plodding, and officious.

The officious friend joined the family too, and he held up his hands in horror when he heard of it.

But she made herself so intensely and disagreeably officious that his patience was sorely tried.

The report was merely the outcome of the officious meddling of his physician, Addington, and one of Bute's friends.

It had been moved by officious servants; doubtless the contents had been put in the wardrobe.

With my officious informant, I had every inclination to pick a quarrel.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to officious, such as: busy, forward, impertinent, inquisitive, interfering, and intrusive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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