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Impulsively

Impulsively \Im*pul"sive*ly\, adv. In an impulsive manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
impulsively

1768; see impulsive + -ly (2).

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impulsively

adv. In an impulsive manner; with force; by impulse.

WordNet
impulsively

adv. in an impulsive or impetuous way; without taking cautions; "he often acts impulsively and later regrets it" [syn: impetuously]

Usage examples of "impulsively".

His people had acted so impulsively during the first encounter with the Furies, it made sense for them to act more conservatively this time.

Impulsively she draped the rope of pearls around her neck and pressed her hands over the pendant.

Chainer impulsively created two huge saber-toothed anacondas and set them on one another.

How could he, the calmest and most civilized of the de Burghs, have acted so impulsively?

Broward County has impulsively offered to build a basketball-hockey emporium to keep both the restless Miami Heat and the money-losing Florida Panthers in South Florida.

Eve had spoken impulsively, with warmth of feeling unrealised until too late.

Impulsively, Caroline yanked the beeswax candles out of the candelabra and replaced them with the tallow ones in her bag.

Impulsively Caralie stepped forward and embraced the thin woman, who trembled with suppressed emotion.

Most of them were closed and boarded up, but at Menominee, the last town before I crossed into Wisconsin, I passed one that was open and impulsively I turned the car around and went back to it.

He had turned into it at once, walking against the moist breeze, since that might well come from the outer world and mark a route of escape, and he had continued with angry chitters and curses to play his impulsively assumed role of crotchety, half-mad rat-bravo or rogue-rat.

As they settled down on the bench seats and clinched their waist, belts Craig asked impulsively the question that had been troubling him, but he asked it in a voice low enough not to be heard by the others in the rising bellow of the main engine.

Junior ran his hand over his head, feeling the soft bristles of hair that were the product of this afternoon's visit to the Clip Joint, where he'd impulsively decided on a brush cut.

It was the one she'd seen in the little shop on the mainland, the one that had sent her impulsively to the car ferry.

The Queen, a sleek maltese, opened her eyes languidly as they approached, but at sight of Mombi she sprang up so impulsively, she bumped her head on a catsup bottle.

The drinking horn came round to her and she drank, then impulsively dipped her finger into the mead and touched it to her brow, her breast, the palms of her hands.