| His unaccredited presence and officiousness in the capital of the Doges were made to appear both offensive and ridiculous. |
| Burns is not the only person who has suffered from this sort of officiousness. |
| Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office. |
| Anderson had not asked him to do it, and felt a dull resentment of the man's officiousness, and the unctious length of his prayer. |
| There's no stuffiness about him, nor any of the officiousness or snobbery that one might expect from a man in his position. |
| He was indeed glad to get away from his wife, get away from her bustling officiousness and her overzealous approach to the events facing them. |
