| Burns is not the only person who has suffered from this sort of officiousness. |
| They are our friends to to such a degree as even to teaze us with their officiousness. |
| 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. |
| The real problem with referees is the epic self-importance of a fairly large minority of them, their strutting officiousness. |
| Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office. |
