hasty
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rapid, careless, hurried, impulsive, urgent, sudden, abrupt, quick, ill-advised, expeditious, swift, reckless, agile, brash, breakneck, brief, brisk, cursory, eager, fastExamples from the Web for hasty
Contemporary Examples of hasty
Benjamin Franklin warned against making any hasty conclusions on such “a point of great importance.”
But the thrill was already gone when Fox rushed out a hasty follow-up later that year, The Next Joe Millionaire.
This course of action is what the Constitution envisions and also slows down the hasty rush to war.
Haddad flew back immediately to find his city rising up, and is now beating a hasty retreat on the bus-fare increase.
On a wall in hasty letters: “The rich kids have better gas masks, we are jealous.”
Historical Examples of hasty
Grace was in the middle of a hasty toilet when a knock sounded on the door.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
He is very severe against me indeed, and yet I hope I have not been hasty in my judgment of her.
Lady SusanJane Austen
I was no sooner out of this difficulty, than a hasty temper got me into another.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
She sat down, wrote a hasty line, sealed, and gave it to Morton.
Night and Morning, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton
The loss of their leader so disheartened them that they made a hasty retreat.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VI (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier