overhasty
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- overhastily adverb
- overhastiness noun
Etymology
Origin of overhasty
late Middle English word dating back to 1375–1425; over-, hasty
Example Sentences
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So maybe I’m being overhasty with this week’s Dinner in Minutes recipe, which prominently features asparagus, a favorite spring vegetable.
From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023
At 53, Thompson might be considered too old to play the Danish prince, a 30-year-old student on leave from university after the suspicious death of his father and the overhasty marriage of his mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2017
Rio pointed out that the sackings did not prejudge the results of any investigation, but they jolted many employees, some of whom thought them overhasty.
From Economist • Jan. 12, 2017
The lesson for the west is that economic torpor can be prolonged by overhasty policy tightening and by a failure to clean up the banking system.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2015
You'll do me the justice, John Sullivan," he said, with a touch of passion, "that never in my life have I been overhasty?
From The Wild Geese by Weyman, Stanley John
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