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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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Etymology of 'Hasty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hasty" Quotes from Famous Books

... a fearful heart,"—literally of a "hasty heart," who allow themselves to be carried away by the Present, and are unmindful of the respice finem.—[Hebrew: mqM] and [Hebrew: gmvl] are Accusatives, used in the same manner as in verbs of ...

— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg

... but with the spirit of reminiscence strong upon them. Many things that he had said and done they recalled and laughed over—but the girl did not laugh. At sundown, when they rode away, she scribbled a hasty note, put it in an envelope and entrusted it to Irish for immediate delivery to the absent and erring one. Then they rode home, promising each other that they would sure devil Andy to death when they saw him, and wishing that they had ...

— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower

... assistance in a Mexican gibberish. He ran hastily to the house, his hand on his pistol. The woman, without stopping her chatter, huddled in the doorway, pointing to the dim corner opposite. Frawley, following her glance, saw the figure of a man stretched on a hasty bed of leaves. He took a few quick steps and ...

— Murder in Any Degree • Owen Johnson

... salmon and ochre that tinted an archipelago of slender clouds. But in the street was the music of carefree lads, playing baseball, exchanging chaste endearments. There too was the gaiety of little trulls, hasty and happy on their roller-skates. While perhaps to generalise these delights, a trundled organ tossed a ragtime. The charm was certainly affecting and that charm the horn of ...

— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... was not a student; he probed nothing to the bottom; his information on all subjects was small in quantity, and second-hand in quality. Nor was he a patient thinker. Any stray fact or notion that he met with in his hasty desultory reading, which chanced to give apparent support to a favorite theory or paradox of his own, he seized upon eagerly, paraded it in triumph, but pondered it little; while the weightiest facts which controverted his opinion ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

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