Michael Specter

Until the Nineteen-Eighties, when Deng Xiaoping designated the area as China's first special economic zone, Shenzhen had been a tiny fishing village. Suddenly, eleven million people appeared, seemingly out of nowhere; factories sprang up, often housed in hastily constructed tower blocks.

American Journalist

Pope Francis

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Argentinian Clergyman

Maria Monk

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.

Canadian Celebrity

Ryan Holiday

Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols.

American Author

Mary Pilon

Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive on the steel gadgets.

Adam Savage

Jamie doesn't like to do anything hastily, and I like to do everything incredibly hastily. So therein you have the dichotomy of our patterns.

American Entertainer

Learned Hand

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

American Judge

Thomas Day

But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.

British Author

John R. Allen

You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.

American Soldier

Geoffrey Chaucer

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

English Poet

Hastily suggests something is done faster than usual, possibly leading to mistakes.

Speed Implication

'Hastily' can imply a negative judgment when used about someone's actions.

Negative Connotation

Hastily often shows that someone had a strong, sudden emotion like annoyance or anger.

Emotional Response

Use 'hastily' to indicate actions done with minimal or poor planning.

Lack of Planning

Tasks done hastily may not meet the usual standards of quality or thoroughness.

Task Quality

Hastily implies a lack of deep analysis or attention to detail.

No Detailed Analysis

 relax I was too impatient to show you our village under the sea hastily we both donned our aqualungs and slowly essentially we submerged into the welcoming water as warm as our blood we started for an unforgettable stroll with slow strokes of our long stretched legs and breathing deep lungfuls of air

Jacques Cousteau's...

 The piece was just one small part of a lengthy program, and the orchestra had been hastily assembled and under-rehearsed. But despite this inauspicious premiere, the symphony quickly won acclaim. One critic likened the piece to “glowing beams of light, piercing through the darkness.”

The secrets of the...

 contains one last clue to her whereabouts before amelia set off on her fateful round-the-world flight she gave her husband another letter this time it was only to be opened if she did not return in a hard-to-read chicken scratch which may have been hastily scribbled down

Amelia Earhart Part II:...

 Guarded by armed soldiers, many of these camps were still being constructed when incarcerees moved in. These hastily built prisons were overcrowded and unsanitary. People frequently fell ill and were unable to receive proper medical care.

Ugly History: Japanese...

 and the sarcophagus, which is the covering over reactor number four, which was hastily built 27 years ago, now sits cracked and rusted and leaking radiation. So I was filming. I just wanted to get the job done and get out of there fast.

Holly Morris: Why stay...

 many animals in this place very good place for animals why only two weeks ago you said the tiger came into this very camp owned and ate two men this is a fine place for animals well I explained the hastily that man-eating Tigers were

Attenborough Catches a...

 punched into the back of the skull and passed through the head it left iron fragments deep inside the bone which stayed there for some 500 years Guillermo Kok believes the wound and the hastily buried bodies in the cemetery

First Gunshot Victim in...

 But from poison traps to hastily brandished slippers, cockroaches seem to weather just about everything we throw at them. So what makes cockroaches so hard to kill? There are nearly 5,000 cockroach species.

Why are cockroaches so...

 but love was not amongst them. And so as soon as I saw this drop into my inbox, I dispatched it hastily to the recycle bin and spared myself a very nasty infection.

Misha Glenny investigates...

 and down came the door hastily we piled boulders on the door so that he couldn't lift it up we've got him