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Usage for officious


ANGRY Bondi Junction residents say their precinct AGM meeting, held on Wednesday May 18 was taken over by officious council officers. They've prepared statutory declarations documenting what happened. The precinct houses a number of pubs and residents ...

An email that is 'strictly business' with no friendly introduction or closing comes off as officious. Open with a quick greeting and close with an upbeat remark that personalizes your message and leaves the recipient with a pleasant feeling. ...

They were "officious interlopers," he wrote, "virtual strangers … with whom Ms. Clark has knowingly and assiduously avoided contact for decades." Clark was married in 1928 to William MacDonald Gower, a son of one of her father's business associates. ...

Groton - With their tuxedo-patterned feathers and officious waddle, Adélie penguins are the classic examples of their species. Though beloved by many humans for their appearance, these flightless seabirds live in a starkly beautiful ...

He is suavely Continental, gracious, eccentric and officious. The surname is a great signifier. He is one of the many adopted children of Josephine Baker, the Jazz Age dancer and chanteuse who, later in life, became the Angelina Jolie of her day in ...


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