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  • adjective Excessively busy; officious.

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over- +‎ busy

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Examples

  • "Hendricks's gentle humor and vivid depictions of island and communal life put a little sugar on the unfortunate and overbusy plot."

    The Laws of Harmony by Judith R. Hendricks: Book summary 2010

  • PLAINFIELD TODAY: A little humor from an overbusy blogger skip to main | skip to sidebar

    A little humor from an overbusy blogger Dan 2008

  • I appreciate the concern -- my struggles with completing any fiction mostly have to do with having had a rather overbusy and unsettled life for a while now.

    The Affirmation 2007

  • What overbusy, underbrained worms these people must be.

    Archive 2006-03-01 2006

  • What overbusy, underbrained worms these people must be.

    "insulted by cretins" 2006

  • All the nurses in town who will take smallpox cases are overbusy now, for the epidemic is still raging there.

    Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1912

  • But the poor woman, not able to rest, and with recourse either to her overbusy family doctor or to the overburdened, careless, out-patient department of some hospital, drags along with her troubles year in and year out, becomes old before her time, and loses through constant pain and distress the freshness of life.

    The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

  • All the nurses in town who will take smallpox cases are overbusy now, for the epidemic is still raging there.

    Chronicles of Avonlea 1908

  • An hour of panting and blasphemous pursuit, at the very outset of an overbusy day.

    His Dog Albert Payson Terhune 1907

  • For he, too, was lonesome, much of the time, as is the fate of a sickly only child in an overbusy home.

    Bruce Albert Payson Terhune 1907

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