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hastily

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adjective, hast·i·er, hast·i·est.

moving or acting with haste; speedy; quick; hurried.

made or done with haste or speed: a hasty visit.

unduly quick; precipitate; rash: a hasty decision.

brief; fleeting; slight; superficial: a hasty glance.

impatient; impetuous; thoughtless; injudicious: hasty words.

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easily irritated or angered; irascible: a hasty temper.

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Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle French hasti, hastif; see haste, -ive

Related forms

hast·i·ly, adverb

hast·i·ness, noun

un·hast·i·ly, adverb

un·hast·y, adjective

Synonyms
1. swift, rapid, fast, fleet, brisk. 3. foolhardy, reckless, headlong. 6. testy, touchy, fiery, excitable, irritable.

Antonyms
1. slow. 3. deliberate.

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Example Sentences

Their weapons are a mishmash of hastily acquired arms, which few of them know how to use.

Most academics don't present hastily written papers.

At the same time, she has thrown her opponents off balance, as they now hastily prepare for an early election.

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Their weapons are a mishmash of hastily acquired arms, which few of them know how to use.

Most academics don't present hastily written papers.

At the same time, she has thrown her opponents off balance, as they now hastily prepare for an early election.

Later graves are nothing more than large holes where monatti, or corpse carriers, hastily unloaded their carts.

Lunch is an often neglected meal of the day: sometimes skipped, many times hastily consumed, lunch is often over before it begins.

The officer took my driver's license, stepped away from the car to write up the ticket-then hastily returned.

When slowed down with a high-speed camera, you can see a ring hurtling towards the hastily constructed houses.

The plan will involve the use of portable computers hastily set up at an.

Plywood on the windows, staff peering out through openings in the curtains hastily installed a few minutes ago.

Government archaeologists hastily excavated the site and removed the objects.

Maripi to head toward their favorite names, it was clear that mother anteater wasn't going to make her decision too hastily.

Your habit can be as intricate or hastily put together as you like.

They will give food to think over, and must not be read too hastily.

He is hastily politicising policing by introducing elected commissioners, when more elected mayors would be a better idea.

Researchers hastily enter a den to tag a two-month-old cub before the mother returns.

He was buried completely our of sight but six men with crowbars and shovels hastily came to his rescue and finally got him out.

It nonetheless hastily convened a mercy commission, which commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

More images followed, including a hastily constructed mosaic showing a broad aerial panorama.

He defends the relief effort, which has seen camps hastily prepared for the displaced.

The snake was snacking on a chameleon at the time, and hastily left its lunch sitting in front of him.

All over the world, exchanges are hastily forming alliances and discussing others, paving the way for mergers.

He is hastily buried in a small tomb, designed originally for a private person rather than a king.

Federal legislation banning fees for first degrees was hastily rushed through.

More images followed, including a hastily constructed mosaic showing a broad aerial pano-rama.

Some of the hastily trained guards became prisoners' accomplices.

He hastily backed up the car and got stuck in a sand dune.

The risky combination of big money and hastily written employment agreements can pose a major problem for colleges.

Residents say landslides are a threat to hastily built new buildings in its mountain towns.

Ryzhikov hastily pushed up front to try and intercept it on the fly.

The attempt to begin work hastily meant that both good and bad projects have moved forward.

And there was something else hastily abandoned in a narrow estuary:.

Many defied warnings in their rush to discover if the winds and rains had left their signatures on hastily abandoned homes.

The opposite fear-that justice is being meted out too hastily and harshly-is held only by a minority.

Gould's main weapon was a hastily built rival telegraph startup that also owned local phone exchanges.

His early paintings concentrated on four- or five-pronged star shapes that evoked hastily sketched corporate logos.

Many residents were hastily laying plastic tarps over the holes.

Believing this, the lad hastily hitchhikes back to the woods.

Government had scope to be more patient then go hastily to evict her.

Seen as easier to defend than smaller bastions nearby, both forts had been hastily garrisoned early in the secession crisis.

Huston hastily abandoned the illegal equipment and purchased more conventional shoes.

Only megadoses of tetracycline, hastily obtained from a.

The enraged young woman vows to kill the maid, but the latter hastily leaves.

It was a new television commercial, looking as if it had been hastily thrown together, judging by.

The hastily erected tents have been replaced by more permanent structures.

She is small and dark and is wearing black pants and a tan blazer, the sleeves of which have been hastily hemmed with safety pins.

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World English Dictionary

hasty (ˈheɪstɪ)

—*adj* , -tier, -tiest
1.	rapid; swift; quick
2.	excessively or rashly quick
3.	short-tempered
4.	showing irritation or anger: hasty words

'hastily

—*adv*

'hastiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

hasty

mid-14c., "speedy, quick," from O.Fr. hasti, hastif (Mod.Fr. hâtif), from haste (Mod.Fr. hâte); see haste. Meaning "requiring haste" is late 14c. (the sense in hasty pudding, 1590s, so called because it was made quickly); that of "rash" is from early 15c.

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