BUSILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does busily mean? 

• BUSILY (adverb)
  The adverb BUSILY has 1 sense:

1. in a busy manner

  Familiarity information: BUSILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUSILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a busy manner

Context example:

they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs

Pertainym:

busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)

 Context examples 

Traddles pretended for a little while to be busily looking among the papers.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the dining-room they were soon joined by Mary and Kitty, who had been too busily engaged in their separate apartments to make their appearance before.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

She was affecting to write busily one Saturday afternoon, when she and Beth were alone together.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was very much moved, and shut himself up in the study all day, where I could see through the window that he was writing busily.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the door there was a golden key, and when she turned it the door sprang open, and there sat an old lady spinning away very busily.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You still believe in equality, and yet you do the work of the corporations, and the corporations, from day to day, are busily engaged in burying equality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Elinor sat down to her drawing-table as soon as he was out of the house, busily employed herself the whole day, neither sought nor avoided the mention of his name, appeared to interest herself almost as much as ever in the general concerns of the family, and if, by this conduct, she did not lessen her own grief, it was at least prevented from unnecessary increase, and her mother and sisters were spared much solicitude on her account.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

While busily investigating bedrock types on Mars' Mount Sharp and preparing for a drill test, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has also been looking up frequently to monitor sunspots on the face of the sun that is turned away from Earth.

(Curiosity Mars Rover Tracks Sunspots, NASA)

On the morning after the jousting, when Alleyne Edricson went, as was his custom, into his master's chamber to wait upon him in his dressing and to curl his hair, he found him already up and very busily at work.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)