MEANING
Offering interference or advice with excessive eagerness or assumed authority.
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- officious clerk
- officious advice
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An officious clerk rearranged their luggage.
Her officious advice provoked a sharp reply.
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more officious; superlative most officious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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