Definition of Busily

1. Adverb. In a busy manner. "They were busily engaged in buying souvenirs"

Partainyms: Busy

Definition of Busily

1. adv. In a busy manner.

Definition of Busily

1. Adverb. In a busy manner, actively. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Busily

1. in a busy manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Busily

bushwhacked
bushwhacker
bushwhackers
bushwhacking
bushwhackings
bushwhacks
bushwork
bushy
bushy aster
bushytail woodrat
busied
busier
busies
busiest
busihead
busily (current term)
business-deal
business-to-business
business-to-consumer
business-to-institutions
business activity
business address
business administration
business agent
business analyst
business analysts
business architect
business architects
business as usual

Literary usage of Busily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War and peace by Leo Tolstoy, Sergej Prokof'ev, Lev Tolstoj, Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva, Valerij Gerg'ev, Graham Vick, Humphrey Burton, Aleksandr Gergalov, Elena Prokina, Gegam Gregoriam, Olga Borodina, Jurij Marusin, Nikolaj Okhotnikov, Vasilij Gerelo, Irina Bogatjeva, (1904)
"Flaring up and growing dim again, and quivering, they seemed to be busily signalling some joyful mystery to each other. THE French army went on melting away ..."

2. Diary of a Southern Refugee, During the War by Judith White Brockenbrough] [McGuire (1868)
"town crowded with them, sewing busily, hopefully, prayerfully. ... We are intensely anxious; our conversation, while busily sewing at St. Paul's ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... when I found both George Wilmot and Agnes busily engaged in the search. It was the lad's dinner-hour, and he had hurried over the meal,'to gain a few ..."

4. History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the by John Thomas Scharf (1886)
"For some time previous to 1862, the Confederates at Pensacola were busily engaged in removing the commissary stores, munitions of war. guns and everything ..."

5. The Daring Adventures of Kit Carson and Fremont, Among Buffaloes, Grizzlies by John Charles Frémont (1888)
"The winter found him and his priests busily engaged with rifles and traps about the source of the Arkansas. Quite a large party of Crow Indians made a foray ..."

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