Crossword-Solution: OFFICIOUS 9 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

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Word Word Type Definition
Officious a. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty.
Officious a. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging.
Officious a. Importunately interposing services; intermeddling in
affairs in which one has no concern; meddlesome.

We have 29 clues for the answer “OFFICIOUS”

Clue Answers
offensively meddlesome 1 answer
Like a Buttinsky 3 answers
Over-eager 5 answers
Obtrusive 16 answers
Hard-working 17 answers
invasive 17 answers
auditing 28 answers
scrutinising 28 answers
inquisitorial 28 answers
interrogating 28 answers
interrupting 29 answers
interposing 29 answers
impeding 32 answers
Nosy? 33 answers
Meddlesome 33 answers
interrogative 33 answers
Prying 34 answers
Intrusive 39 answers
meddling 39 answers
Asking __ 44 answers
inquiring 47 answers
heuristic 47 answers
investigative 48 answers
examining 49 answers
Snooping 49 answers
searching 50 answers
Inquisi-tive 52 answers
ANALYTICAL 63 answers
investigating 64 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OFFICIOUS (5)

All preachers were alike, officious and on their dignity; liked to deal with women and girls, but not with men.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her with officious zeal.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
Its effect upon her appears in the immediate resolution it produced: as soon as she found I was really gone from Randalls, she closed with the offer of that officious Mrs.
Emma Jane Austen 1994
Every qualification is raised at times, by the circumstances of the moment, to more than its real value; and she was sometimes worried down by officious condolence to rate good-breeding as more indispensable to comfort than good-nature.
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1994
What would you have said later?” “That for a man who is generally averse to meddling, you were suddenly rather officious.” Rowland’s countenance fell.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006

Quotes with OFFICIOUS (1)

I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-forgetfulness, I again tasted Joy. ... One thing, however, I learned, which has since saved me from many popular confusions of mind. I came to know by experience that it is not a disguise of sexual desire. ... I repeatedly followed that path - to the end. And at the end one found pleasure; which immediately resulted in the discove…
C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life