officiously's Usage Examples:

includes the satirical lines "Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive".

requirements, because as Lord Browne-Wilkinson said, equity "will not strive officiously to defeat a gift".

restitutionary relief should be denied if the benefit was conferred officiously, or if liability would amount to a hardship for the recipient of the.

equity will not aid a volunteer and the maxim that it will not strive officiously to defeat a gift.

only one candidate, officially to enforce the sex parity principle, officiously to evict lists from an Islamist party.

Decalogue"s couplet on murder, "Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive:" is often quoted – usually out of context – in debates.

commentators borrowed the line, "Thou shalt not kill but needst not strive, officiously, to keep another alive.

American bureaucracy grows as luxuriantly and behaves as officiously as any other.

jailed in 1994, allegedly for being a member of the outlawed PKK, but officiously for having spoken Kurdish in public during her parliamentary oath.

Vogons are described as officiously bureaucratic, a line of work at which they perform so well that the entire.