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In a city with a history of electing charismatic lawbreakers, Mendelson is an almost burlesque figure of bureaucratic officiousness, complete with Panama hat and a tidy mustache that predates the Carter administration.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2017

Neighbor Shockley notes that some in the community now comment on Callahan’s never-ending officiousness.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2016

As that currently only contains 19 players, it would therefore presumably take an act of quite hilarious spiteful officiousness for the suits so say ‘Naaaaah’ to that one.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2014

Was this meeting — with its almost whimsical officiousness: its plastic fence, its stopwatch — adding or subtracting suffering from the universe?

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2014

Her mother, when Aunty Uju came back, stayed in Dolphin Estate for a while, bathing and feeding the gurgling, smooth-skinned baby, but she faced The General with a cold officiousness.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie