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Significados de officious em inglês

Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner.

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I'm always really busy; I have good friends, a job and family.
News.com.au
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A number of companies hope so, and are busy building the technology.
The Guardian
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Mrs MacFie said TV was often an easy choice for busy mothers.
Radio NZ
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This week is looking less busy in terms of South African data.
The South African
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The area has been busy with climbers adding new lines this year.
Climbing Magazine
1
If you think the government is interfering it affects your investment case.
Reuters
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The charter prevents us from interfering with the right of free speech.
A Case of Conscience
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They also have voiced concern over Russia interfering in another American election.
Radio NZ
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I could have you arrested for interfering with police business, he said.
The last illusion
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Automatic inhibitory control processes prevent such response tendencies from interfering with behaviour.
Pubmed
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Putin has denied any meddling in the U.S. democratic process last year.
Reuters
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Future dealmakers underestimate that penchant for market meddling at their own risk.
Reuters
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Another amended law expands potential crimes to include meddling by these agents.
Reuters
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Professionally for Heat, Rook's meddling in the case compromises her new job.
Driving Heat
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It marks the first foreign meddling case in the forthcoming US elections.
Radio NZ
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It was a question not usually asked outright, but only mildly meddlesome.
The Valley of Horses
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Never before had she known Cyrilla to say anything meddlesome or cattish.
The Price She Paid
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After much meddlesome surgery we are almost back to his methods again.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine / The Story of The Students And Teac...
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I have succeeded, and may God have mercy on my meddlesome soul!
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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Not the Government Export Licence office, and certainly not the meddlesome Confederation inspectors.
The Reality Dysfunction
Uso de officious em inglês
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You are of a mind to think of my question as officious?
Soulless
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Here, now was this pack of officious idiots blundering in upon him.
South Wind
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The case was not clear enough to justify so officious a step.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 / A Magaz...
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Some oaf in a terminal staff suit uniform, officious smile in place.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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Now, a spiritually enlightened understanding may be officious in prayer these ways-
The Pharisee and the Publican
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In silence, without a word of thanks for this officious warning, Mdlle.
The Professor
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The papers are very officious, and these other people are simply impertinent.
Second Book of Tales
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Wendy didn't much care for Ullman or his officious, ostentatiously bustling manner.
The Shining
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The next day he spent cleaning stables, under a particularly officious corporal.
The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ...
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I must be kept at too great a distance to be officious.
A Young Girl's Wooing
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He affected cheerful acceptance of my somewhat officious proposal to accompany him.
Rolling Stones
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She was still stunning, but there was an officious air to her.
Wild Storm
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It seemed to him that the squire's kindness was a trifle officious.
The Hallam Succession
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They consider it as officious, troublesome, and even embarrassing, on some occasions.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
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Was it strange if she were officious, with such relief in prospect?
Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-st...
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Had she been too officious in welcoming him to his own home?
Beulah
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