Use of officious in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include officious at the start of sentence, officious at the end of sentence and officious in the middle of sentence

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officious at the end of sentence


  1. The consul's manner toward all tourists was officious.
  2. You are rather disposed to call his interference officious?
  3. When people put on uniforms, their attitude becomes more confident and their manner more officious.

officious in the middle of sentence


  1. He is an officious leader.
  2. a nasty officious little man.
  3. Foreign office officious ask to see the prisoner.
  4. There was pushing and pushing and officious cries.
  5. On the other hand, there are still many officious people.
  6. We were tired of being pushed around by the officious guy.
  7. Why, we wonder, were Darlington police so officious over this?
  8. She bustles about cooking breakfast in a most officious manner.
  9. 'I'll see,' the nurse said, with an officious toss of her head .
  10. He's an officious little man and widely disliked in the company.
  11. We were tired of being pushed around by officious civil servants.
  12. They wouldn't welcome any officious interference from the police.
  13. I moved because I can't put up with officious landlady any longer.
  14. She presided over the present-opening like an officious timekeeper.
  15. Because he had no real authority, the clerk acted in officious way.
  16. He had a reputation for being politically officious and self - serving.
  17. Firmness, she thought, was the only way to deal with the officious little man.
  18. All those dreary councillors and their officious bureaucrats deserve to be humbled.
  19. Back in the car park, I found that an officious traffic warden had decided to make my day.
  20. She remained the same officious and imaginative Mrs. Penniman, that we have hitherto known.
  21. I got held up by an officious receptionist who wouldn't let me in until I'd answered all her questions.
  22. If he hadn't been an incredibly brainy person he would have been an officious one-eyed council clerk or something.
  23. He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.
  24. The people at the tax department were very officious, and kept everyone waiting for hours while they checked their papers.
  25. Fabio raised it, ironically, but Sergio was already back in the kitchen, doing something officious with the salad dressing.
  26. Hierarchy simply served to protect the incompetent and the officious from external control through the mutual support of superiors and subordinates.

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