jack-in-office

noun

1. a self-important petty official

Example Sentences

They warned off the rabble with the insolence every jack-in-office displays towards his inferiors.

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Well, she is a disagreeable, tyrannical sort of female Jack-in-office; but she has her good points.

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She's full of red-tape notions, and a Jack-in-office to-day because the Empress has left her in charge.

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Just another example of pettish bureaucracy, the officiousness of the jack-in-office.

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He was never shocked, and nothing made him angry, except cruelty or a Jack-in-office.

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