pell-mell
adverb
in disorderly, headlong haste; in a recklessly hurried manner.
pellmell
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a variation of
pell-mell.
Example Sentences
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In the pellmell rush of putting up factories, dredging ports, bulldozing roads, planting new crops, nobody found time or talent to coordinate and manage all the projects.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are plenty of critics of modern basketball and its pellmell, high-scoring format.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Down the broad stone stairway leading from the Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell.
From Time Magazine Archive
Woman's Rights were pretty well represented in that pellmell.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
