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• s  intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
  bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself

• The officious manner of the match refree put off the players so much that they walked out of the field in protest.
• The two eventually changed the name to Yahoo!, claiming it was an acronym for "Yet another hierarchical officious oracle.
• Then again, few people would prefer a suicide bomber over an officious border guard.

• interfering
• meddlesome
• meddling
• busy
• busybodied

News & Articles

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• Mo Farah Celebrates Moscow Gold Medal in Style, with a Car Park Massage
  Being a world champion does not guarantee you a massage whenever—or, more pertinently, wherever—you want one, it seems. Britain’s 10,000m champion Mo Farah found himself frustrated in his bid for a post-race rub on Saturday by over-officious Russian stewards. Having enjoyed his happy ending out on the track in Moscow a few hours earlier, producing a blistering last lap to hold off Ethiopian ...
  Aug. 12, 2013 - Bleacher Report

Quotes

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• Angus Fraser in Sportinglife.co.za
  Fraser told Sky Sports: "Normally when the ball is changed the captain is involved but Inzamam-ul-Haq was brushed aside. Hair is seen as an officious umpire and he should have spoken to the Pakistan players. Here you are perceived to be guilty...
• Darrell Hair in Telegraph.co.uk
  Robert Griffiths, QC, for Hair, asked him: "You have been described as officious, arrogant, over-bearing, a blackmailer and having 'form' - were any of these given as a reason by the ICC for not allocating you matches on the elite panel?"