1
The case was not clear enough to justify so officious a step.
2
Why had his grandfather been so officious in this matter of the flowers?
3
Thank you for being so officious, I said by way of a parting shot.
4
Kindly do not be so officious, Miss Hendrie.
5
Sophism is so officious!
6
But the old scoundrel, who was usually so loquacious and so officious, replied briefly; and, strange to say, did not offer his services.
7
When the fagots were piled up to his very neck, the duke of Bavaria was so officious as to desire him to abjure.
8
"I should like you better if you weren't so officious," she said.
9
"Surely, young Clyde will not be so inconsiderate, so officious, as to induce those ladies to visit us?"