Definition of officious

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

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Overofficious :: Overofficious (a.) Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious.
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..
Busy :: Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.
Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.
Supersession :: Superserviceable (a.) Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.
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.
Telltale :: Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Indifferent to obligation or duty.
Meddlesome :: Meddlesome (a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.
Talebearing :: Talebearing (n.) The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously..
Pushing :: Pushing (a.) Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive..
Talebearing :: Talebearing (a.) Telling tales officiously.
Officious :: Officious (a.) Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
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.
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..
Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..
Polypragmatical :: Polypragmatical (a.) Overbusy; officious.
Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome..
Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..
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