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What does officious mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) obliging, attentive, eager to please
  2. Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services
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Overly officious, he issued an amazing 10 yellow cards and one red, in what wasn't a dirty game.
Our underlying concern is that we could get one or two officious people policing it.
I was stopped at the University gates by an officious guard who asked me for my faculty card.
An officious camp guard, armed with a stout pole for the purposes of crowd control, herds them roughly away.
The worst were the overly officious customs officials who are no advert for American hospitality.
Hospitals could be pointlessly officious on such matters as visiting rights for parents.

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