hastiest
- superlative of hasty.
Example Sentences
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When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2020
It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.
From Time Magazine Archive
From Buenos Aires itself, what but the hastiest impression could I take away with me?
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund
Setting her back on her feet was one of the hastiest movements he had ever made in his life.
From Sinister Paradise by Williams, Robert Moore
