officious

• She realized all at once that she had been meddlesome and officious, and she longed to make amends There was silence for a full minute. —  Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's
• A rapid glance at Miss Hartley helped him to regain his composure I don't know why the boy should have been so officious," he said, slowly; "I didn't want to see you. —  Salthaven
• She is a young lady, petite in figure, unpretending but highly cultivated, by no means officious, and so wholly unconscious of her excellencies, and the great work she is achieving, that I fear this public allusion to her may pain her modest nature. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
• "The papers are very officious, and these other people are simply impertinent. —  Second Book of Tales
• “Abraham’s brats_” was used by him in perfect good faith, and without the slightest feeling that anything ludicrous or contemptuous adhered to the word ‘brat’, as indeed in his time there did not, any more than adheres to ‘brood’, which is another form of the same word now{222 Call a person ‘pragmatical’, and you now imply not merely that he is busy, but over_-busy, officious, self-important, and pompous to boot. —  English Past and Present

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