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Hasty   /hˈeɪsti/   Listen
Hasty

adjective
(compar. hastier; superl. hastiest)
1.
Excessively quick.  Synonym: headlong.  "A headlong rush to sell"
2.
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.  Synonyms: overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous.  "Hasty makeshifts take the place of planning" , "Rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion" , "Wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"



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"Hasty" Quotes from Famous Books



... turn to sayings in which the subtlety of psychological observation deserves admiration: "The drunkard, the careless, the insane, the fatigued, the angry, the hungry, the greedy, the timid, the hasty, and the lover know no law"; "If a man commits a crime, his voice and the colour of his face become changed, his look becomes furtive, and the fire is gone from his eye"; "The best remedy for a pain is no longer to think of ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... with capacities of quite a different kind, hurry on and on, learn everything readily, connected or unconnected, recollect it with ease, and apply it with correctness. And again, some of the lessons here are given by excellent, but somewhat hasty and impatient teachers, who pass from result to result, cutting short the process by which they are arrived at; and these are not of the slightest service to her; she learns nothing from them. There is a complaint of her handwriting. They say she ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... that our economy is a highly complex and sensitive mechanism. Hasty and ill-considered action of any kind could seriously upset the subtle equation that encompasses debts, obligations, expenditures, defense demands, deficits, taxes, and the general economic health of the Nation. Our goals can be ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Dwight D. Eisenhower • Dwight D. Eisenhower

... Transient literature may do without those large ideas. A gifted young reporter may describe a dog fight or a presidential nominating convention in such terms as lift his article out of carelessness and hasty newspaper writing into the realm of real literature; but it cannot become abiding literature. It has not a large enough idea to keep it alive. And to any one who loves worthy expression there is a sense of degradation in the use of fine literary powers for ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee

... By his hasty movement in rising he had apparently dislodged the glove from its position on the edge of the couch. He stooped with a hurried word of apology and picked it up. On the delicate palm was stamped the curved ...
— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard


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