speedy

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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speedy (ˈspiːdɪ)

—*adj* , speedier, speediest
1.	characterized by speed of motion
2.	done or decided without delay; quick

'speedily

—*adv*

'speediness

—n

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Example sentences

We wish her a speedy recovery, and will be contacting ticket holders for her

event to offer them refunds.

Those of which the consumption is either immediate or more speedy, in the other.

Other people have speedy liver enzymes that swiftly destroy drugs.

Well adapted for their home in the water, puffins are also speedy in the air.

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"If I were asked what are the greatest obstacles to the speedy enfranchisement of women I should answer: There are three; the first is militarism.... The second obstacle is the unconscious, unmeasured influence upon the estimate in which women as a whole are held that emanates from that most debasing of our evil institutions, prostitution.... [ellipsis in source] The third great cause is the inertia in the growth of democracy which has come as a reaction following the aggressive movements that with possibly ill-advised haste enfranchised the foreigner, the Negro and the Indian. Perilous conditions, seeming to follow from the introduction into the body politic of vast numbers of irresponsible citizens, have made the nation timid."

-Carrie Chapman Catt