Because Cory is the boss’s son, he thinks he can stick his officious nose into everybody’s business without fear of consequences.

I usually give law officers their due respect, but I just didn’t appreciate that policeman’s officious attitude when he was questioning me.

Mary doesn’t like it when officious strangers try to start a conversation in the checkout line.

While the officious sales clerk may have believed he was giving me some helpful advice, he was just wasting my time by telling me things I already knew.

As the wedding date grew nearer, Melanie actually began to appreciate the officious interference of her mother in making everything happen.

Although Cathy doesn’t claim to be an expert on anything, she is still happy to provide officious advice on every topic under the sun.

I stopped enrolling in the continuing education courses because it never failed that someone in the class would monopolize the discussion with officious comments that made me yawn.

After several parishioners complained that the pastor’s officious secretary was distributing their confidential prayer requests to others, he told her that she had been breaking a sacred trust.

The librarian is an officious old bat who is always trying to tell me what I should or shouldn’t be reading.

Although at first Melissa appreciated her blind date’s undivided attention, she began to feel uncomfortable with his officious personal questions.