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hastily
[ heyst-l-ee ]
adverb
- with haste; rapidly; speedily:
Late one snowy night in Maryland, moving crews hastily loaded a line of vans and, under cover of darkness, departed the city.
- without sufficient care or attention:
This book feels far less potent, and far more hastily written, than the earlier work.
- unnecessarily quickly or rashly; impetuously:
Six months earlier, she had hastily married a former high school classmate.
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- un·hast·i·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hastily1
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Example Sentences
The pale, baby-faced, red-cheeked rapper is furiously puffing away at a hastily-made blunt crammed with low-grade weed.
And while there now are blood reserves lining hospital shelves, Dudley said the nonprofit is hastily approaching a crisis.
A video has appeared that experts believe shows the Buk missile battery being hastily withdrawn to the border with Russia.
A senior Russian ambassador has demanded—and been hastily given—a top-level appointment at the Foreign Office today.
While the Bear and WaMu deals were conducted hastily, and amid market turmoil, the rules still apply.
In case any reader should hastily exclaim, “What a ridiculous question; there can be only one southward!”
Her last words floated back from the depths of the corridor; a clock was striking and she had pattered off hastily.
Here Robinson suddenly turned pale, and, hastily reaching out for his gun, sprang to his feet.
Not having completed the loading of his gun, Tom hastily rode behind a dense bush, and concealed himself as well as he could.
He paused; and hastily wrote a few lines, to say that parent still lived, and would yet proclaim himself with honour to the world.
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