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Examples of hastily
hastily
Their hastily cobbled together plan to buy up banks'toxic assets was under fire.
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I was hastily wrapped in my father's coat and we hurried blindly to the shelter.
From the telegraph.co.uk
An official account was hastily withdrawn from the newswire where it was posted.
From the economist.com
All of them have meant more integration and some of it was made far too hastily.
From the economist.com
Did she hastily fumble for her phone, apologizing for forgetting to turn it off?
From the scienceblogs.com
From checkpoints hastily set up fighters continuously let off a festive pop-pop.
From the guardian.co.uk
On Monday morning Ashcroft held his hastily arranged press conference in Moscow.
From the time.com
The stolen TRILLIONS are hastily sent to crony banks both at home and off shore.
From the infowars.com
William hastily put on the crown, entered the Chamber, and dissolved Parliament.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Hurriedly: in a hurried or hasty manner; "the way they buried him so hurriedly was disgraceful"; "hastily, he scanned the headlines"; "sold in haste and at a sacrifice"
- (hastiness) haste: overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
- (hastiness) hasty impulsiveness
- (hasty) excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
- (hasty) done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate ...
- (Hastiness) In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity. ...
- (hasty) Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)
- (hasty) Done or made too quickly to be accurate or wise; rash.
- (adverb) -- to do something in a rushed way ch. 9
