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hastily
[ heyst-l-ee ]
adverb
- with haste; rapidly; speedily:
Late one snowy night in Maryland, moving crews hastily loaded a line of vans and, under cover of darkness, departed the city.
- without sufficient care or attention:
This book feels far less potent, and far more hastily written, than the earlier work.
- unnecessarily quickly or rashly; impetuously:
Six months earlier, she had hastily married a former high school classmate.
Other Word Forms
- ܲ··· adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of hastily1
Example Sentences
"The Court does not reach such conclusion lightly or hastily; indeed, it has given Defendants ample opportunity to rectify or explain their actions. None of their responses has been satisfactory," federal judge James Boasberg wrote.
At that point cyber criminals take over the account and plan their posts around hastily spun up crypto coins that can only take a couple of hours to create and launch.
As their patience runs out on this hastily arranged bargain, Charlie manages to give the feds the slip and sets out on his own, ready or not.
In an interview with the Financial Times published Monday, Langone decried Trump’s tariffs as too large, imposed too hastily, and based on an incoherent mathematical formula.
Based on that claim, administration officials were preparing to fly more than 200 Venezuelans from Texas to El Salvador when a federal judge in Washington hastily convened a Saturday afternoon hearing.
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doeshastily mean?
Hastily means rashly or too quickly and often carelessly.
The related adjective hasty most commonly means too fast and often careless.
The noun haste most commonly refers to urgency, such as in completing a task. Haste can also be used as another word for speed or swiftness. But haste also commonly means urgency or speed that is careless or reckless. This is how the word is used in the expression haste makes waste, which means that rushing things leads to mistakes. This is how hasty and hastily are most commonly used.
Doing things hastily is thought to lead to mistakes. Making a decision hastily is making it too quickly, often leading to negative consequences.
Hastily can also mean speedily, as in We packed up hastily and left as quickly as we could.
Example: Don’t make big decisions hastily—you should always take some time to think about them.
Where doeshastily come from?
The first records of the word hastily come from around 1300. The noun haste is related to the English æ, “violence,” the Old Norse heifst, “hatred,” the Gothic haifsts, “quarrel,” and the Old High German heisti, “powerful.” The suffix -ly is used to form adverbs (the y in hasty is changed to an i in hastily, which is a spelling convention used in other adverbs whose base adjectives end in y, such as happily).
Hastily is most often used in a negative way. Most of the time, it implies that something was simply done too quickly, leading to mistakes. The opposite of doing something hastily is taking your time.
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How ishastily used in real life?
Hastily is most commonly used in a negative way to imply that something has been done too quickly and in a careless way.
We DO need to abolish subsidies, but it can't be rushed. If done too hastily, policy reforms can backfire, as was the case in Ecuador recently. Our new blog post from and outlines what we can learn from this:
— IISD (@IISD_news)
In beating the US and EU last week to authorising the , Britain kicked off a spirited debate about whether it had moved too hastily or the others were wasting valuable time as the death toll mounted | via
— Firstpost (@firstpost)
Delays with the formal audit of a nuclear reactor raises questions on whether the government is too hastily pushing its green energy platform.
— KEI (@KoreaEconInst)
Try usinghastily!
Which of the following words is NOT a synonym of hastily?
A. rashly
B. carelessly
C. hurriedly
D. calmly
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