officiousness

It sometimes has a humorous suggestion of pomposity or officiousness.

As happened during Prohibition, increasing swaths of the nation are ignoring officiousness that is not plausibly related to a proportionate public good, and that is clearly related to social bossiness.

There’s an officiousness—an almost disingenuous toadying—to these interactions that I, with my modern, fashionable prejudices, find a bit funny and gross.

That said, the dopey qualities in Waititi’s portrayal of Hitler — along with the narrow-minded officiousness of the movie’s Nazis — also serves to demystify evil a bit.

It was often, says Ron, very hard not to burst out laughing at the credulity and the petty officiousness of the Klan members.