officious

There is plenty of the sort of officious nit-picking beloved of sports authorities.

From the moody and officious to the joker and the Buddhist, every canine companion I have worked with brought a distinct character to our partnership.

Lydia: As Michelle hinted at, the Democrats have become the party of officious technocracy, which makes so many things they propose sound, well, ridiculous.

The case, however, made Comstock’s name synonymous with “prudery, Puritanism and officious meddling,” according to Broun and Leech.

Why not, “Today, we need spoons in the kitchen, the dining room and in many other places”? Chat depends on canned phrases and writes like a bureaucrat: It is formal and officious.