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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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"Hasty" Quotes from Famous Books

... and grasp at all that might be, or that elsewhere, is. In her, as in us all, it was often—nay, daily—a discontent; yet a noble discontent, and curbed with a grand, unconscious patience. She scoured her knives; she shuffled along the streets on hasty errands; she went up and down the house in her small menial duties; she put on and off her coarse, repulsive clothing; she uttered herself in her common, ignorant forms of speech; she showed only as a poor, low, little Irish girl with red hair and staring, ...

— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney

... doubtful propriety, and the power to do so should certainly never be conferred upon a private corporation. When customs laws are proposed in Congress ample opportunity is given to the representatives of the various industries of the country to be heard upon the subject. No hasty step is taken. Members of Congress have every opportunity to ascertain the sentiment of their constituents, through the public press, petitions and private correspondence. The subject is discussed ...

— The Railroad Question - A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and - remedies for their abuses • William Larrabee

... mingle with the waters of the lake Vexed with the storm and sounding loud in sympathy. What have we here? What human trace of times When hearts o'erflowed, and hand and steel were swift, And red in the flashing of a hasty thought? Ah me! these times, these woful times when word And blow were wed, and none could sunder them, And honour'd live! See yonder isle set single In the lake, near by where Earn darts swiftly 'neath The rustic bridge to bear the music of the place To broader Tay, ...

— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... thought about anything except her not havin' any one to advise with about her clothes. It's the only thing she ain't handy with: she won't know what to wear. I'm afraid she'll spoil her silk. I d'know but what father's been hasty in not lookin' into things carefuller first. He most ...

— The Lady of the Aroostook • W. D. Howells

... healthier tone of mind in the long run, more seriousness, more depth, more moderation of judgment, more insight into other men's ways of thinking as well as into his own, than any amount of impatient condemnation and hasty denial, even when both condemnation and denial ...

— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) - Essay 1: On Popular Culture • John Morley

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