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hasty::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous |
| Derivation | haste, hastiness |
hasty marriage seldom proveth well.
hasty makeshifts take the place of planning.
rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion.
Examples of hasty
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Forget those hasty moments when a famous vineyard sells some fruit on the cheap.
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Satoshi Iue is an astute and cautious businessman, not prone to hasty decisions.
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The tourists threw horrified glances and beat a hasty retreat to the shark tank.
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After a hasty exposition, what has read as fantasy suddenly becomes space opera.
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However, Smith swatted Jason Richardson's hasty three-point try as time ran out.
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Watson made a hasty exit from the team hotel last night dressed in a black suit.
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But apparently super-hasty motion is not the only strange thing about neutrinos.
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Making a hasty decision in a dealer at 5pm on the weekend could cost you plenty.
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Meanwhile the government's hasty retreat has only made the assets more poisonous.
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- Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
- 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 in ...
- (hastily) 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"
- Acting in haste; being too hurried or quick. (e.g. Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.)
- (hastily) (adverb) -- to do something in a rushed way ch. 9
- Done or made too quickly to be accurate or wise; rash.
