Definition of officious

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Officious (a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.

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Talebearing :: Talebearing (n.) The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously..
Intermeddle :: Intermeddle (v. i.) To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.
Talebearing :: Talebearing (a.) Telling tales officiously.
Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..
Pushing :: Pushing (a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive..
Interloper :: Interloper (n.) One who interlopes; one who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously..
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Indifferent to obligation or duty.
Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
Marplot :: Marplot (n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot..
Overofficious :: Overofficious (a.) Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious.
Busybody :: Busybody (n.) One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.
Meddler :: Meddler (n.) One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..
Maintenance :: Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty..
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Not officious; not civil or attentive.
Nose :: Nose (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.
Polypragmatical :: Polypragmatical (a.) Overbusy; officious.
Officious :: Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.
Over-busy :: Over-busy (a.) Too busy; officious.
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Regardless of natural obligation; contrary to natural duty; unkind; -- commonly said of a testament made without regard to natural obligation, or by which a child is unjustly deprived of inheritance..
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