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Definition
too eager to tell others what to do — often regarding unimportant matters
- Every qualification is raised at times, by the circumstances of the moment, to more than its real value; and she was sometimes worried down by officious condolence to rate good-breeding as more indispensable to comfort than good-nature.Chapter 32 (50% in)
- Before her removing from Norland, Elinor had painted a very pretty pair of screens for her sister-in-law, which being now just mounted and brought home, ornamented her present drawing room; and these screens, catching the eye of John Dashwood on his following the other gentlemen into the room, were officiously handed by him to Colonel Brandon for his admiration.Chapter 34 (71% in)
There are no more uses of "officious" in Sense and Sensibility.
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