officious

In a sentence

Six example sentences with officious, each labelled with its topic.

• An officious clerk at the ferry desk made us refill the same form three times over a missing middle initial.

  Travel

• The officious new manager stood by the squat rack timing everyone, and half the regulars moved to another gym.

  Fitness

• The film's funniest character is an officious usher who reseats the whole theater twice before the projector even starts.

  Movies

• An officious assistant manager rewrote the staff schedule every day, then wondered why nobody told him anything.

  Business

• The officious scorekeeper stopped the game twice to check jersey numbers that everyone in the gym already knew.

  Basketball

• Dickens fills his novels with officious clerks who make a poor widow return four times for one signature.

  Literature

Found in these word lists

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More Literary words

• effrontery
• cogitate
• inveterate
• verisimilitude
• soporific
• unctuous
• cupidity
• antediluvian
• opprobrium
• sangfroid
• edify
• ignominious