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Meanings of officious in English
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.
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Examples for "busy"
Examples for "busy"
1
I'm always really busy; I have good friends, a job and family.
2
A number of companies hope so, and are busy building the technology.
3
Mrs MacFie said TV was often an easy choice for busy mothers.
4
This week is looking less busy in terms of South African data.
5
The area has been busy with climbers adding new lines this year.
1
If you think the government is interfering it affects your investment case.
2
The charter prevents us from interfering with the right of free speech.
3
They also have voiced concern over Russia interfering in another American election.
4
I could have you arrested for interfering with police business, he said.
5
Automatic inhibitory control processes prevent such response tendencies from interfering with behaviour.
1
Putin has denied any meddling in the U.S. democratic process last year.
2
Future dealmakers underestimate that penchant for market meddling at their own risk.
3
Another amended law expands potential crimes to include meddling by these agents.
4
Professionally for Heat, Rook's meddling in the case compromises her new job.
5
It marks the first foreign meddling case in the forthcoming US elections.
1
It was a question not usually asked outright, but only mildly meddlesome.
2
Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.
3
After much meddlesome surgery we are almost back to his methods again.
4
I have succeeded, and may God have mercy on my meddlesome soul!
5
Not the Government Export Licence office, and certainly not the meddlesome Confederation inspectors.
Usage of officious in English
1
You are of a mind to think of my question as officious?
2
Here, now was this pack of officious idiots blundering in upon him.
3
The case was not clear enough to justify so officious a step.
4
Some oaf in a terminal staff suit uniform, officious smile in place.
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Now, a spiritually enlightened understanding may be officious in prayer these ways-
6
In silence, without a word of thanks for this officious warning, Mdlle.
7
The papers are very officious, and these other people are simply impertinent.
8
Wendy didn't much care for Ullman or his officious, ostentatiously bustling manner.
9
The next day he spent cleaning stables, under a particularly officious corporal.
10
I must be kept at too great a distance to be officious.
11
He affected cheerful acceptance of my somewhat officious proposal to accompany him.
12
She was still stunning, but there was an officious air to her.
13
It seemed to him that the squire's kindness was a trifle officious.
14
They consider it as officious, troublesome, and even embarrassing, on some occasions.
15
Was it strange if she were officious, with such relief in prospect?
16
Had she been too officious in welcoming him to his own home?
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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