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Talebearing :: Talebearing (n.) The act of informing officiously; communication of sectrts, scandal, etc., maliciously..

Pickthank :: Pickthank (n.) One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively..

Nose :: Nose (v. i.) To pry officiously into what does not concern one.

Telltale :: Telltale (n.) One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

Meddlesome :: Meddlesome (a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.

Busy :: Busy (a.) Officious; meddling; foolish active.

Pleaseman :: Pleaseman (n.) An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank.

Inofficious :: Inofficious (a.) Indifferent to obligation or duty.

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..

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

Marplot :: Marplot (n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot..

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..

Inofficiously :: Inofficiously (adv.) Not-officiously.

Pragmatical :: Pragmatical (a.) Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome..

Taleteller :: Taleteller (n.) One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler..

Officious :: Officious (a.) Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

Talebearer :: Talebearer (n.) One who officiously tells tales; one who impertinently or maliciously communicates intelligence, scandal, etc., and makes mischief..

Supersession :: Superserviceable (a.) Overofficious; doing more than is required or desired.

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.

Intermeddle :: Intermeddle (v. i.) To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with.

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