busily

comparative more busily · superlative most busily

1. In a busy manner; actively.

   But these sweet thoughts do ever refresh my labours,/ Most busil'est when I do it.

   1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, scene i

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   Look at the little fellows, mere bundles of fluff, paddling along so busily and sturdily.

   1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary on the Plains, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 5

   Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.

   1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409