Crossword clues for overhasty
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overhasty \O"ver*has"ty\, a. Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. too hasty.
WordNet
adj. 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 deposing the king" [syn: hasty, precipitate, precipitant, precipitous]
Usage examples of "overhasty".
The alien decided that he had been overhasty in condemning the man for letting his son do dangerous work.
Regretfully Suzanne decided that there was no time for lovemaking, Five minutes later she revised her overhasty judgment.
It was on my mmd, while eating, that I might have been overhasty in speaking to Lady Ransome and her husband about our inn and the food to be had there.
Salaman always felt uneasy in the presence of big men, not because he had any great regret at being short-legged himself, but because great slow lumbering fellows like Thu-Kimnibol made him feel overhasty and fevered in his motions, like some small scurrying animal.
Master Jebilu has agreed that he may have been overhasty in his dealings with her.
His overhasty departure from K-L was occasioned by a nasty flap back on Artiuk involving some drunken Carnelian robotics engineers, a much-prized xeno domestic animal, and an enraged Haluk bureaucrat.
They saw us as an honorable and legitimate alternative and we welcomed their skills, although perhaps we were overhasty in several cases.