officiously in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for officiously in the English»French Dictionary

officiously [Brit əˈfɪʃəsli, Am əˈfɪʃəsli] ADV

officiously say:

officiously

du haut de son importance

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

This sorry mess it has brought entirely on itself, by allowing its social workers to intervene so officiously in this admirable old lady's life.

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Attempting to cross at the most convenient point, the bridge's tollman emerged from his hut officiously demanding a shilling to let the two dozen rebels pass.

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What a prodigious amount of hypocritical outrage from the pens of journalists who had never been subject to state censorship, but who officiously and opportunistically served the zeitgeist.

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