How do you use Officious in a sentence? See 8 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like interfering or meddlesome, plus the exact meaning.
Officious meaning
- Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
- Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
Synonyms of Officious
Using Officious
- The main meaning on this page is: Obliging, attentive, eager to please. | Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
- Useful related words include: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, busy.
- In the example corpus, officious often appears in combinations such as: officious assistant, his officious.
Context around Officious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Officious
- In this selection, "officious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brusque, assistant, tribunes and looking stand out and add context to how "officious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brusque officious leader who and as the officious search engine. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "officious" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with officious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Anzac relations have been strained by an officious Kiwi headmaster. (10 words)
They must contend with Olivia (De Beaufort), the court’s officious assistant district attorney. (14 words)
We first meet Einstein bantering with his officious assistant Helen (Mindy Shaw) about Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. (18 words)
I’ve done this for my kids (a 4-year-old in district pre-K and a 2-year-old in day care), and my pre-Ker was suitably wowed by the officious-looking chart I taped up in the hallway. (41 words)
Gadot, Taraji P. Henson (as Buzztube chief algorithm Yesss) and Alan Tudyk (as the officious search engine KnowsMore) are worthy additions to the cast, although other returning players like Jane Lynch and Jack McBrayer get little more than cameos. (39 words)
And its hilarious duo of officious tribunes Brutus (Jordan Metcalfe) and Sicinius (Stephanie Street) feel like they’re straight from a political sitcom, resolutely ordinary amid the chaos they cause. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
They must contend with Olivia (De Beaufort), the court’s officious assistant district attorney.
And its hilarious duo of officious tribunes Brutus (Jordan Metcalfe) and Sicinius (Stephanie Street) feel like they’re straight from a political sitcom, resolutely ordinary amid the chaos they cause.
His officious and obstructive manner brought him into conflict with Amber Rudd, who also mysteriously found herself the subject of negative briefing as the Windrush crisis unfolded.
I’ve done this for my kids (a 4-year-old in district pre-K and a 2-year-old in day care), and my pre-Ker was suitably wowed by the officious-looking chart I taped up in the hallway.
Anzac relations have been strained by an officious Kiwi headmaster.
Gadot, Taraji P. Henson (as Buzztube chief algorithm Yesss) and Alan Tudyk (as the officious search engine KnowsMore) are worthy additions to the cast, although other returning players like Jane Lynch and Jack McBrayer get little more than cameos.
The Emperor, sung by Andrew Thomas Pardini, is a brusque, officious leader who revels in his absolute power, until the figure of Death finds a way to outsmart him.
We first meet Einstein bantering with his officious assistant Helen (Mindy Shaw) about Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Common combinations with officious
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: