Definitions
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- adjective Excessively
busy ;officious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Hendricks's gentle humor and vivid depictions of island and communal life put a little sugar on the unfortunate and overbusy plot."
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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.
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What overbusy, underbrained worms these people must be.
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What overbusy, underbrained worms these people must be.
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All the nurses in town who will take smallpox cases are overbusy now, for the epidemic is still raging there.
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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.
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All the nurses in town who will take smallpox cases are overbusy now, for the epidemic is still raging there.
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An hour of panting and blasphemous pursuit, at the very outset of an overbusy day.
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For he, too, was lonesome, much of the time, as is the fate of a sickly only child in an overbusy home.
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