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overhasty::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | hasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous |
rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion.
Examples of overhasty
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Attempts to blame England's recent riots on youth unemployment were overhasty.
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An overhasty shutdown, he acknowledges, would cause electricity shortages and disrupt people's lives.
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As in so much else, the Chairman was overhasty.
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Despite this and hearing of renewed revolution in France, Metternich was not about to be drawn into overhasty action.
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It has been overhasty and undemocratic in amending the constitution, albeit that in March a large majority of Egyptians endorsed the changes it proposed.
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But if LBG is forced into public hands, then the prime minister's critics will say that his overhasty assistance dragged a sound bank down with HBOS.
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But as dissident groups seized on the findings as vindication of their theories, other scientists criticised them for jumping to overhasty conclusions.
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Some would-be adopters may at times be overhasty but Michele Bond, the senior State Department official dealing with the issue, insists that those concerned act from the best possible motives.
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- 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 ...
