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officious [əˈfıʃəs] ADJ

consciousness [ˈkɒn­ʃəs­nıs] N

eco consciousness N

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Ultimately the club has another motive driving its new officiousness.
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Officiousness in sacrifices is called irreverence; ceremonies when burdensome lead to disorder.
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But even worse than this contemporary variant on 17th-century witchfinding is the jobsworthery and officiousness by which its absurdities are entrenched.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk
In 1846, he wrote that the abolitionists had, in fact, slowed the advancement of their cause by their ultraism and officiousness.
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The public must always be alert for the officiousness and high-handedness of our bureaucracies, who all too often have insufficient oversight.
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