Hastily
adverb
Quickly and without delay, often without much consideration or attention.
She hastily left the room after the argument
Often appears as...
- made hastily
- moved hastily
adverb
Quickly and with a lack of detail or planning.
The report was hastily put together
Often appears as...
- prepared hastily
- written hastily
adverb
Quickly and without delay, often without much consideration or attention.
She hastily left the room after the argument
Often appears as...
- made hastily
- moved hastily
adverb
Quickly and with a lack of detail or planning.
The report was hastily put together
Often appears as...
- prepared hastily
- written hastily
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Hastily suggests something is done faster than usual, possibly leading to mistakes.
He hastily answered the questions, missing some of them.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Hastily' can imply a negative judgment when used about someone's actions.
She hastily judged his intentions, which was unfair.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Hastily often shows that someone had a strong, sudden emotion like annoyance or anger.
He hastily slammed the door due to his frustration.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Hastily suggests something is done faster than usual, possibly leading to mistakes.
He hastily answered the questions, missing some of them.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Hastily' can imply a negative judgment when used about someone's actions.
She hastily judged his intentions, which was unfair.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Hastily often shows that someone had a strong, sudden emotion like annoyance or anger.
He hastily slammed the door due to his frustration.
Pro Tip 1/3Speed Implication
Hastily suggests something is done faster than usual, possibly leading to mistakes.
He hastily answered the questions, missing some of them.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Hastily' can imply a negative judgment when used about someone's actions.
She hastily judged his intentions, which was unfair.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Hastily often shows that someone had a strong, sudden emotion like annoyance or anger.
He hastily slammed the door due to his frustration.
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Video examples
Jacques Cousteau's...
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
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The secrets of the...
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.”
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Amelia Earhart Part II:...
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
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Ugly History: Japanese...
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.
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Holly Morris: Why stay...
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.
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Attenborough Catches a...
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
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First Gunshot Victim in...
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
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Why are cockroaches so...
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.
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Misha Glenny investigates...
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.
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Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and down came the door hastily we piled boulders on the door so that he couldn't lift it up we've got him
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Jacques Cousteau's...
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
Video examples
The secrets of the...
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.”
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part II:...
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
Video examples
Ugly History: Japanese...
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.
Video examples
Holly Morris: Why stay...
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.
Video examples
Attenborough Catches a...
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
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First Gunshot Victim in...
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
Video examples
Why are cockroaches so...
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.
Video examples
Misha Glenny investigates...
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.
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Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and down came the door hastily we piled boulders on the door so that he couldn't lift it up we've got him
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Michael Specter
American Journalist
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.
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Pope Francis
Argentinian Clergyman
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.
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Maria Monk
Canadian Celebrity
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.
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Ryan Holiday
American Author
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.
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Mary Pilon
American Journalist
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.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
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.
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Learned Hand
American Judge
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Thomas Day
British Author
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
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John R. Allen
American Soldier
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
English Poet
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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Michael Specter
American Journalist
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.
Quote examples
Pope Francis
Argentinian Clergyman
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.
Quote examples
Maria Monk
Canadian Celebrity
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.
Quote examples
Ryan Holiday
American Author
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.
Quote examples
Mary Pilon
American Journalist
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.
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Adam Savage
American Entertainer
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.
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Learned Hand
American Judge
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Thomas Day
British Author
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.
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John R. Allen
American Soldier
You know, great powers don't get angry, great powers don't make decisions hastily in a crisis.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
English Poet
There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
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