Etymology
Origin of officialism
Example Sentences
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It is the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, of centralization, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
You can have no conception of how far the officialism goes till you see it.
From Letters from China and Japan by Dewey, John
He was at all times ready to give vent to that antipathy against officialism which is shared by so large a number of Englishmen.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir
It would be a mere matter of Government officialism, and there the affair would end.
From Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion by Mitford, Bertram
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