Nothing so fatal as to strive too officiously for an abstract quality like beauty. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an officious person. ,officious interference. From Dictionary.com.
But are they or are they not, officiously inserted?. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Juana looked on cynically, and assisted officiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Masloboev was officiously helping him and handing him his cane. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
Cato stood at the gate, and came forward, officiously, to help them out. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
"Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive, officiously, to keep alive.". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
But take care you are not too suddenly, or too officiously compassionate. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Lord Evandale mounted the horse, while Cuddie officiously held the stirrup. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
"Say, I can tell you that right off the reel," declared Bristles, officiously. From Wordnik.com. [Fred Fenton on the Track or, The Athletes of Riverport School] Reference
John, with Hugh trailing officiously after, had gone to make the call to Base. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
They were officiously anxious to please "Your Highness," as they christened me. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Once Starrett had motored up officiously to bully Wherry into coming back to him. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
‘Where is he, Mum?’ he asked officiously, as they slowed down at the side passage. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
A knot of court eunuchs, ageing relicts of Darius and even of Ochos, advanced officiously. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
‘He has some nonsense that he calls his prayers, sir,’ returned old John, officiously. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
When Toby and Besen asked, Cermo had said officiously, "Hunting's for full grown, not kids.". From Wordnik.com. [Furious Gulf]
Yet why should Shorey (except officiously to please her principals) make a report in his disfavour?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
“But who is the gentleman who is just going up to them and handing them a tumbler so officiously?”. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero of Our Time] Reference
My father had officiously told her above a thousand times which way it was, — but she always forgot. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
Marmaduke Bass had, for several moments, been hovering officiously in the wake of Master James Ogilvie. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
While she waited, she was annoyed to see Mr. Alfred Cayley Pounce making his way towards her officiously. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
And she turned her back and settled the mirror, officiously, leaving all the other responsibilities to Betty. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Presented with an opportunity to help a little girl in danger, she officiously responded: "Show me the paper.". From Wordnik.com. ['Who's John McCain?'] Reference
A short, bald, little man with short legs, long arms, and protruding jaw, ran officiously up and down the room. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
She then hastened officiously to press her support on Edith, as she paced the hall apparently in deep meditation. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
'It opens the Fourth of July, kids,' Frank would say, officiously — his arm hanging out the window of the car. From Wordnik.com. [The Hotel New Hampshire]
Once they've got me standing, Arthur places himself in front of me, officiously pulling down the skirts of his jacket. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
The convicts slunk away into their berths, or officiously ran to help "the doctor," with affectation of intense obedience. From Wordnik.com. [For the term of his natural life] Reference
He performed officiously the duties of a long day, with growing impatience, but simultaneously fearing for the time to pass. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
However, she was not about to decline an opportunity to escape Mr. Marston, particularly in his present, officiously disapproving mood. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
They have long been the pest of the playhouse, and always the worst enemies of those whose cause they have officiously assumed to espouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Dumps again found himself an object of universal curiosity, every body became officiously attentive to him, he was waylaid in his walks, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829] Reference
It would ill become me to go officiously about the markets identifying my own handicraft and upsetting a number of perfectly contented people. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
The most officiously zealous friend and partisan whom we all encountered in Halifax was Mr. "Sandy" Keith, who was facetiously called the Confederate Consul. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
Everybody in the room, who were chiefly the guards 'wives and daughters, seemed to compassionate me exceedingly, and the sentinel officiously opened me the door. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
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