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And while there now are blood reserves lining hospital shelves, Dudley said the nonprofit is hastily approaching a crisis.
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A senior Russian ambassador has demanded—and been hastily given—a top-level appointment at the Foreign Office today.
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This week Weiner addressed the new revelations at a hastily called press conference.
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“It caused the perpetrators to hastily plan and make mistakes,” Cilluffo said.
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Instead they hastily passed what was basically a draft bill, which had done virtually nothing about the MEPs.
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"I mean only that He could not have the heart," she said hastily.
Tommy and Grizel|J.M. Barrie
David, seizing the opportunity, deposited his reserve of lozenges in the ground and hastily swept some earth over them.
Brother Jacob|George Eliot
Together the lads pieced out the narrative as they had hastily prepared it.
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The key-note to her character is in this novel she grabbed as she hastily packed her bag—‘The Madness of May.’
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Some repairers use a hastily made solution of powdered colour such as burnt umber, and paint or rub it into the wood.
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British Dictionary definitions for hastily

hasty

/ (ˈheɪstɪ) /

adjective -tier or -tiest

rapid; swift; quick

excessively or rashly quick

short-tempered

showing irritation or angerhasty words

Derived Formshastily, adverbhastiness, noun

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Word Origin and History for hastily (1 of 2)

hastily

adv.

c.1300, "quickly," from hasty + -ly (2). Meaning "without due consideration" is 1580s.

Word Origin and History for hastily (1 of 2)

hasty

adj.

mid-14c., "speedy, quick," by 1500s replacing or nativizing earlier hastif (c.1300) "eager, impetuous," from Old French hastif "speedy, rapid; forward, advanced; rash, impetuous" (12c., Modern French hâtif), from haste (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. Related: Hastiness. Old French also had a form hasti (for loss of terminal -f, cf. joli/jolif, etc.), which may have influenced the form of the English word.

The termination was doubtless from the first identified with native -i, -y, from OE -ig; and it is noticeable that the other Teutonic langs. have formed corresponding adjs. of that type: Du. haastig, Ger., Da., Sw. hastig. [OED]

hasty

adjective, hast·i·er, hast·i·est.

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hasty

adjective -tier or -tiest

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