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hasty
adjective
Excessively quick
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ˈheɪsti
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adjective
Excessively quick
“Made a hasty exit”
adjective
Done with very great haste and without due deliberation
“{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'hasty marriage seldom proveth well'}”
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Made a hasty exit
A headlong rush to sell
{'source': 'Shakespeare', 'text': 'hasty marriage seldom proveth well'}
{'source': 'Arthur Geddes', 'text': 'hasty makeshifts take the place of planning'}
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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