overbusily
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English overbisili, equivalent to overbusy + -ly.
Adverb edit
overbusily (comparative more overbusily, superlative most overbusily)
- in an overbusy manner
- 2015, Harold Bindloss, The Mistress of Bonaventure:
- Famine had smitten India, and the great cattle-barons beyond our frontier had been overbusily engaged, attempting the extermination of the smaller settlers, to attend their legitimate business; so buyers in Europe were looking to Canada for wheat and cattle.