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Old 11-Jul-2007, 20:49
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I have just met a colleague and after telling her I'd missed her at the welcoming recepetion to new employees yesterday, she tried to justify herself repeatedly for having missed the event. I wanted to tell her that I never meant to demand an explanation, but I wanted to have said that in one word (an adjective most likely). What could it be? Something that could be used in a sentence like "Oh, I didn't mean to be..." or "Please, do not take me wrong. I wasn't being..."
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Old 12-Jul-2007, 00:46
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How about just plain ‘demanding’; or ‘rude’, pushy‘, ‘pesky’, ‘annoying’, ‘a pest’, ‘impolite’, ‘bossy’, ‘domineering’, ‘controlling’, ‘a control freak’, ...
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I think rude is your best choice.

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Yep! Rude is the best! (Don't get me wrong! )

Good night people, it's 01:08, I can't keep my eyes open!
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What you didn't mean to be was accusatory. If you tell someone that you missed him at a meeting, that is not rude. If that person thinks that he needs to explain himself, then he mistook your sincere concern for an accusation of incompetence; he thought you were being accusatory.
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Try:
I didn't mean to accuse you of anything.
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Ron,
Great Tar Heel minds think alike.

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Ron,
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Or "critical."
I wasn't being critical - I just meant that I was sorry not to see you there!
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Here’re 2 more to really give Unregistered a good choice: nosy, prying.
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