adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an officious guard at the security desk
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I got held up by an officious receptionist who wouldn't let me in until I'd answered all her questions.
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The people at the tax department were very officious , and kept everyone waiting for hours while they checked their papers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All those dreary councillors and their officious bureaucrats deserve to be humbled.
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Back in the car park, I found that an officious traffic warden had decided to make my day.
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Fabio raised it, ironically, but Sergio was already back in the kitchen, doing something officious with the salad dressing.
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Firmness, she thought, was the only way to deal with the officious little man.
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He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.
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If he hadn't been an incredibly brainy person he would have been an officious one-eyed council clerk or something.
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Why, we wonder, were Darlington police so officious over this?