overbusily

English

Etymology

From Middle English overbisili, equivalent to overbusy +‎ -ly.

Adverb

overbusily (comparative more overbusily, superlative most overbusily)

  1. 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.
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