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Officious

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Adjective

1. busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

Example Sentences:
'an interfering old woman'
'bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself'
'busy about other people's business'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Officious

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adjective
1. 
unnecessarily or obtrusively ready to offer advice or services
2. 
marked by such readiness
3. diplomacy
informal or unofficial
4. obsolete
attentive or obliging

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Officious

see synonyms of officious
adjective
1.  Obsolete
ready to serve; obliging
2. 
offering unnecessary and unwanted advice or services; meddlesome, esp. in a highhanded or overbearing way
3. 
in diplomacy, unofficial or informal

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Officious

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adj.
1. Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others: an officious host; officious attention.
2. Informal; unofficial.
3. Archaic Motivated by the desire to help others.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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