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adjective

Hasty adj. (compar. hastier; superl. hastiest)

Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty retreat; a hasty sketch.

Demanding haste or immediate action. (R.) "Hasty employment."

Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager. "Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than of him." "The hasty multitude Admiring entered." "Be not hasty to go out of his sight."

Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.

Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. "Take no unkindness of his hasty words."

Forward; early; first ripe. (Obs.) "As the hasty fruit before the summer."

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"Hasty" Quotes from Famous Books

... kent that Himsel' was wi' me. I kent it by the provision He made, an' the care He took, an' the joy He gave. An' how, think you, did He comfort me maist? Just by the blessed assurance that a' my trials an' a' my sorrows were nae hasty chance matters, but dispensations for my guid, an' the guid o' those He took to Himsel', that, in the perfect love and wisdom o' His nature, He had ...

— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton

... changing her mind and going along with them just to frustrate this design. Only, of course, it wouldn't work that way. She couldn't keep Rush from being taken away from her by playing the spoil-sport. She couldn't keep him anyhow she supposed. She made a hasty, rather forlorn retreat to her own room as soon as the departing pair were safely out ...

— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster

... were still burning in Mrs. Athelstone's apartment, but there was no one in the rooms. Some opened drawers in the bureau and the absence of her toilet articles from the table told of preparations for a hasty flight. ...

— The False Gods • George Horace Lorimer

... With a hasty movement the leader of the broncho boys loosened his revolvers and glanced to see if his rifle was ready ...

— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor

... monarch endeavoured to discover the murderer of his children. The hasty flight of Balavan, his poniard stained with blood, which was found in the apartment, soon confirmed the suspicions to which his vicious disposition had at first given rise. The unfortunate old man with difficulty restrained the excess ...

— Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers • Various

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