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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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— Miss Mackenzie • Anthony Trollope

... made up, and calling for pen, ink, and paper, he wrote a hasty note to Jawleyford, explaining why he would not cast up till the morrow; he then got the chestnut out of the stable, and desiring the ostler to give the note to Leather, and tell him to go home with his hack, he just rode out of the yard without giving Leather the chance of saying ...

— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... in the statutes of Connecticut which made the holding of such a school as that of Miss Crandall's illegal, the good Canterbury folk procured the passage of a hasty act through the Legislature, which was then in session, "making it a penal offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any one in that State keeping a school to take as his or her pupils the ...

— William Lloyd Garrison - The Abolitionist • Archibald H. Grimke

... absolutely as if he had been struck dumb. 'But I need not speak just yet,' he consoled himself. 'I must try to make her feel that I am of use to her, and that she would miss me if she sent me away. My darling! I must not risk anything by being too hasty.' ...

— A Canadian Heroine - A Novel, Volume 3 (of 3) • Mrs. Harry Coghill

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