This page will make sure you never confuse official and officious again! Read the definitions, check out our example sentences, and be sure to follow the twitter feed to see how the internet is using these words in a sentence.
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Definition
Official
A worker who holds or is invested with an office
Examples
An official representative
Officious
Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Examples
Bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
Live Twitter Feeds
What's the internet saying about official/officious?
@sempervig1lo: @LynetteRose_ @JediAndi they bank on scaring people into paying by using official looking paperwork and officious phrases
@CashinKatie: @yaboy_thomas Officious means "not official" I even took it to the thesaurus ;)