officiously

• “What I did not love -- and in fact really, really hated -- was being penned in by cops onto narrow sidewalks and into really crowded spaces by New York's finest -- who seemed to enjoy strolling back and forth officiously in the wide empty streets greeting each other as though is was old home week.”

  The Huffington Post: Warren Goldstein: Occupy Wall Street Highs -- Penned in Lows

• “No, I simply whipped out the copies of everything, all of which were stamped, officiously, by the person who took all the originals from me some five weeks early.”

  FM 3 Renwal

• ““Mrs. Gwyn, that will be five shillings for tardiness,” Mr. Booth called out officiously.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• ““When you are ready, please,” called Hart officiously.”

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• ““John,” began Dryden officiously, “you will be able to arbitrate this matter.””

  Simon & Schuster: Exit the Actress

• “The first cartoon in this week's New Yorker is vintage Cullum: a confident-looking dog in coat-and-tie, sitting officiously behind a desk, is telling a man of like size, eye and snout: "I do corporate, divorce, and malpractice, but I'm most familiar with leash laws.”

  The Washington Post: This week in The New Yorker: LEO CULLUM's final cartoon

• “Wait for it: When it's everybody against the Germans over money-printing, the Germans will not merely cave but bustle officiously to the front of the parade for money-printing.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Memo to Europe: Forget the War

• “(When they do make a kill, they solemnly apologize to the victims: "All energy is borrowed and one day you have to give it back," Neytiri rather officiously informs the avatar-Jake when he makes his first kill.)”

  The Huffington Post: 'Avatar's' Debt To 'The Wizard Of Oz'

• “Behind them were the mules, and then in a cluster, each with a load of some sort on his head, were the thirty prisoners, and Ismail took charge of them officiously.”

  Fictionaut: In The Time Of Light

• “I called her about a story I was doing for a magazine, but when I mispronounced Proenza Schouler, the high end brand co-designed by two former students of the Parsons School of Design, she snapped at me officiously: "If you don't know how to say it properly, you shouldn't be asking me about them.”

  Gioia Diliberto: Secretary of Fashion

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