Adjective : an officious person. ,officious interference. From Dictionary.com.
Perhaps, were I acquainted with either, my officiousness might be at an end: but I presume not to ask upon what terms –. From Wordnik.com. [Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World] Reference
Evangelists, are frequently observed to attribute to this kind of officiousness expressions which are unquestionably portions of the genuine text. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
But officiousness always looks easier to train than dullness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
You will excuse me therefore, I am sure, for this my officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
The officiousness of the pair of mayors prodigiously displeased him. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
You know but too well, resumed she, bow acceptable your officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
I laughed at the negro's officiousness, which the man did not appear to resent. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Nothing of importance would have come of the affair, but for the officiousness of. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
In Tayabas the officiousness of the Governor almost brought him to an untimely end. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The numbers of these vagrants, their officiousness, their fluency, were bewildering. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Thought Police, or simply an amateur spy actuated by officiousness, hardly mattered. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
They are our friends to to such a degree as even to teaze us with their officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
The sum of them merged into an unchristian melee of officiousness and black ingratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
They know not of my coming hither; but I could not forbear this officiousness: I cannot stay. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
The officiousness and pettiness of the small soul invested with authority has often been commented on. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Rome, with how untimely, yet with how spectral an officiousness, stepped he in between me and my ambition!. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
When I was a very young man, I remember to have seen a person suffocated by such impertinent officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
General Pervoyedov at last himself checked with dignity the disgusting officiousness of his sycophant in the grave. From Wordnik.com. [Bobok] Reference
Reply Obj. 2: To occupy oneself with secular business on account of another's need is not officiousness but charity. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
Many persons, while laudably attentive to the preservation of their teeth, do them harm by too much officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
Down gets John, all officiousness and alacrity to make up for past enormities, and rings a peal that might waken the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
I tried to cover my resentment at being recaptured and my remorse at having hurt him with an air of bullying officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
It appears to me very likely that they were supplied by the friendship or officiousness of Jonson, whose manner they will be. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 55, November 16, 1850] Reference
Barry, whose interference on the subject of Owen's marriage had not been too well received, shrank from further officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Soul] Reference
“Remember, however,” said Cecilia, who was involuntarily diverted at the successful officiousness of her new acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
They showed, at least, even to the well-meant officiousness of the Hazeldeans, the small account in which the fallen family was held. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference
This was a sad trick upon me, indeed, and what I could not expect; and Mrs. Jervis looked like a fool as much as I, for her officiousness. —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Everything thrived according to my wish, and whatever I desired or longed for was immediately realised through the officiousness of my new vassal. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference
Some of his plays have suffered severely from the ravages of time, the ignorance of copyists, and the more dangerous officiousness of grammarians. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.] Reference
"Well, you don't say -- Hey, there, just a minute!" this last as John, who had a secret delight in baiting officiousness, continued toward the gateway. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
I am really uneasy to talk with you; not, believe me, from officiousness nor impertinence, but from a persuasion I may be able to promote your happiness. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Caleb in the mean while waited on them with grave officiousness, as if anxious to make up, by his own respectful assiduity, for the want of all other attendance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Lammermoor] Reference
They would be sure to defend themselves to the uttermost, and if successful as they probably would be, would make the movers in the matter rue their officiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference
Displeasure at this officiousness was unavailing, for looking out of the window, she perceived Miss Larolles, followed by half her party, not three paces from the chaise. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
Pompey, who had been standing by during the examination, thought that his services were now required, and, stepping forth with a degree of officiousness, said to Aaron. From Wordnik.com. [Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter] Reference
By this time the court-lackeys had rushed out, full of officiousness, to stop the outrage; but the King, at the end of a puzzled day, was in no mood to hinder the least diversion. From Wordnik.com. [The Faery Tales of Weir] Reference
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