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hasty
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hasty conclusion (= one that you reach too quickly, so that you are probably wrong ) ▪ Researchers must beware of drawing hasty conclusions. a hasty decision (= one that you make without enough thought ) ▪ Don't ...
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adj. excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell" [syn: headlong ] done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; ...
Usage examples of hasty.
With a hasty glance toward the ablution facility, Abe raced after the others, to find them by the locked door.
A series of loud crashes from behind it quickly followed as Alec and Wethis beat a hasty retreat.
Lynn Flewelling Stopping just long enough for a bath and a hasty meal, Seregil and Alec were ready to move on by noon.
Essex, who was placable, as well as hasty and passionate, was soon appeased, and both received Raleigh into favor, and restored the other officers to then commands.
And big as these shops were, they were growing bigger, spreading over a third block, where two new structures were mushrooming to completion in some hasty cement process of a stability not over-reassuring.
A succession of hasty directions to the leading cabman, one of the most docile of men, ended in the performance of a marvellous piece of jugglery with the big trunk, which he first balanced for an infinitesimal period of time on his nose, and then caught with his big toe.
Cordiani, who felt uneasy, came to inquire from me what my intentions were, but I rushed towards him with an open penknife in my hand, and he beat a hasty retreat.
The way-stew was nothing to brag about, but the vapors did wonders to clear her head, so that she felt reasonably alert when she helped herself to the last of the cauf and began to repack her hasty camp.
Nevertheless, not wishing to be too hasty in his conclusions, he answered very civilly that he had drunk enough already, and that more would only heat his blood.
Your hasty judgments stay, Until the topmost cyme Have crowned the last entablature of Time.
Catching the squirming cat just as it would have leaped for freedom, Caroline swung around to discover the dominie not a dozen paces away, stopped in his tracks by her hasty words.
Conservative school of critics, and was anxious to guard against hasty emendations of the text, however plausible.
With hasty feet I rushed down the hall out into the cool, sweet air of the planet morning.
Precisely a hasty, giftless mediocrity, and I took over the conversation by force in the most giftless way.
They took us further and yet further into the margins of the forest, which, no hasty gulper, swallowed us up at its primeval leisure.