Busy and Happy

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Busy adjective - Involved in often constant activity.

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Happy and busy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Happy" instead an adjective "Busy".

Nearby Words: busily, busyness, busied, busying

Happy adjective - Coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly.

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Busy and happy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Busy" instead an adjective "Happy".

Nearby Words: happiness, happily

In a similarly-situated family in Spain or Italy, Mary would have entered a convent where she would have played the organ in the chapel and taught in the girl's school, and been very busy and happy.

Source: Unintentionally Sympathetic
Sure you can neglect and slap around your minions, but it takes a lot of effort to get the good ones, so you're usually better off keeping them happy and busy.

Source: Video Game / Dungeon Keeper
The former is busy ridding the house of any traces of Rebecca about which Mrs Danvers is less than happy.

Source: Literature / Rebecca

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