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Hurriedly

Hurried \Hur"ried\, a.

  1. Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.

  2. Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job. ``A hurried meeting.''
    --Milton. -- Hur"ried*ly, adv. -- Hur"ried*ness, n.

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hurriedly

adv. In a hurried manner.

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hurriedly

adv. 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" [syn: hastily, in haste] [ant: unhurriedly]

Usage examples of "hurriedly".

A group of maybe five or six bodies were hurriedly unloading their weapons and taking off their white uniforms and bundling them into what looked like Lacon boxes aluminim airfreight containers.

Hurriedly he despatched one of his serving men to the Amalekite to bid him await a message.

Over the speaker atop the radio, the Amn Al-Khass commander could hear members of the security detail talking hurriedly to one another.

She rose, walked quietly back along the beam, passed Argemone and Lancelot without seeing them, and firmly but hurriedly led the way round the pool-side.

There was blood everywhere, and dead men asprawl, their bodies dragged hurriedly aside when no more might be done to aid them.

Hurriedly assembling another dozen men, and leaving the Adjutant, Lieutenant Barff, with directions to bring on more, he ran with his little party after Taylor in the direction of the entrance gorge of the Kotal camp.

Opar stood above her kill, while Abu Batn and the other Aarabs, attracted by the death cry of the stricken man, ran hurriedly toward the little group.

Milisant dressed hurriedly, ignoring the bliaut she had worn yesterday in favor of her own clothes just to spite Wulfric.

By the terms of the original permission given to him to remain at his forest post, when all other Europeans were hurriedly herded into Calicut because of the rebellion, he might regard himself as almost a neutral, in order that either side might have the ear of the other through him.

Hurriedly, Chon Look raised the silent gong and made a soundless stroke.

When tired, sweaty hands seemed to be slipping on a guiding line in the lowering of the bronze tube of a massive thirty-two-pounder demicannon, Sir Roberto hurriedly kicked off his jackboots and ran out onto the wet, mud-slimy, uneven boards to add his strength to the task.

As it did so Domini heard heavy and uneven steps cross the verandah hurriedly.

But the fire had long since burned out, and the gray false dawn was cold, adding impetus to their movements as they hurriedly changed their clothes and left the cabin for Eucher Butte.

Realizing what was going on, though, I clawed hurriedly at my belt, noting that my hands seemed smaller and hairier, the fingers shorter.

Hurriedly, the two Keralan officials scrambled aboard the great beast.