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A second type of lie is the mendacium officiosum , or "officious lie," whose purpose is to achieve some useful end or to prevent some distinct harm.
Pistone, who dislikes the officious superiors in his FBI "family," boasts of having his hooks in Lefty, but comes to dread (and delay) the moment when he'll be pulled out of Operation Donnie Brasco and called upon to bring about his mentor's demise.
Courtney B. Vance shows up as an officious homicide detective from a nearby city who finds Holly Springs' lazy informality irritating, but none of the women wants to answer his queries: They want to flirt with him, and he can't help falling into their easy rhythms.
Do not let any bumptious, presumptious, officious, malicious or contentious reactionary socialist come between you and interfere to counteract the felicitary interprications of your marriage bed.