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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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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