Hasty (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation; "hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare; "hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes; "rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"; "wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king".
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Meaning 2
Excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell".
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All adjective clusters.
Examples
- She made a hasty decision to quit her job without thinking it through.
- The company's hasty expansion led to financial difficulties.
- He made a hasty retreat from the battlefield, leaving his comrades behind.
- The politician's hasty apology was seen as insincere by many.
- The tourists made a hasty departure from the island as the hurricane approached.