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• When we confronted her, she gave us a hasty, incoherent explanation.From the entry incoherent
• “Is my kyriolexy hasty for your obtuse brain?” I said sarcastically.2012, Foo Yin Tung, This is Business: My Life as a Singapore Gangster II, page 118. From the entry kyriolexy
• But perhaps, too, it is worth recalling where hasty, unreflective action has taken us in recent years.2009 January 6, Clyde Haberman, “We Know About the Mess. Please, Clean Up Carefully.”, in New York Times. From the entry unreflective
• “A hasty withdrawing on thy part, or a gaingiving in thy look, those will serve.”2003, Pamela Dean, The whim of the dragon. From the entry gaingiving
• The surviving characters will quickly learn not to be so hasty or foolish in the future.1994, “Running Adventures”, in Mean Streets, West End Games, →ISBN, page 53. From the entry let the dice fall where they may
• This time I was shown round pretty thoroughly; though my young guide was too hasty for me.1948, Esmond Quinterley, My Airman Days, Fortune Press, page 168. From the entry sadisticness
• A large proportion of divorces are the result of hasty marriages and elopments.1918, Report of the Missouri Children's Code Commission, Jefferson City, M.O.: The Hugh Stephens Co., page 28. From the entry elopment
• Lord Grenville took a hasty farewell of the ladies and slipped back into his box, where M.1905 January 12, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], The Scarlet Pimpernel, popular edition, London: Greening & Co., published 20 March…. From the entry frou-frou
• The Indians, making a hasty inference from a trivial phenomenon, arrived unawares at a probably correct conclusion.1900, Andrew Lang, chapter 1, in The Making of Religion. From the entry phenomenon
• We see movements that are short, large, fast, hasty, or slackish—and we can perform such movements as well.2016, Herbert Heuer, Andries Sanders, Perspectives on Perception and Action, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry slackish
• The mysterious stranger had evidently beat a hasty retreat!2013, John O'Loughlin, Fixed Limits. From the entry beat a hasty retreat
• After apologizing profusely, I beat a hasty retreat.2012, H.H. Kothe, Grandpa Was a Sailor, page 56. From the entry beat a hasty retreat
• Let us not be too hasty in our condemnation.2010, Chris Meyers, The Fetal Position: A Rational Approach to the Abortion Issue. From the entry pseudoargument
• Some of these publications show signs of hasty production, indicating that they were written while the news was hot.2000, David Cressy, Travesties and transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England: tales of discord and dissension, Oxford University Press…. From the entry hot
• Hasty breaching requires speed with a minimum of planning.1969, Engineer Field Data, pages 3–17. From the entry hasty breaching
• At moments they also sound hasty and a bit "simplistes".1963, Hugues Leblanc, “The Myth of Simplicity; Problems of Scientific Philosophy. By Mario Bunge. Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall…. From the entry postfatory
• I violate peace not only in hasty words or angry attitudes but also in failing to be the reconciler Jesus calls his followers to be.2001, Marva J. Dawn, Karen Dismer, Morning by Morning. From the entry unpeace
• When someone mispatches a cable, the subsequent repair job or hasty "What's wrong with this?" debugging often causes additional failures in short order.2000, Network World, volume 17, number 50, page 82. From the entry mispatch
• McCartan and I gave London a hasty goingover, had a calm Channel crossing, and parted company in Paris, when I went on towards Rome.1973, Barry Faulkner, Barry Faulkner; sketches from an artist's life, page 62. From the entry goingover
• The entirely neglected garden seemed to convey a hint that the tenant might be contemplating a short occupation and a hasty flight.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry defaulter
• In The Simpsons, the sitcomic plot drives the camera over the harsh, black, thin lines making up the flat setting in an often hasty and inconsistent tempo.2014, Timotheus Vermeulen, Scenes from the Suburbs: Suburban Space in Us Film and Television. From the entry sitcomic
• He has no other option than to find some laws that can be strictened, well knowing that it is wrong to make hasty legislation in a highly emotional climate.2013, A. Fog, Cultural Selection. From the entry stricten
• Pride wenteth before a fall; I put the slice bar through one of the cutter’s tubes — and lost my job in a hasty exit over the side.1968, Robert Welch, American Opinion, XI, page 59. From the entry pride wenteth before a fall
• You will doubtless find it necessary to send these Papers to his Altess the Prince de Potemkin, to obtain positive Orders to preventing any too hasty Step.1964 [1959], John Paul Jones, “Kontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones: 1788-1789” (chapter XX), in Samuel Eliot Morison, editor, John Paul…. From the entry Altess
• Carelessness may be manifested in unduly brief replies to open questions or projective stimuli, and in hasty reading of closed questions, resulting in mischecks or random responses or position habits.1968, Gardner Lindzey, Elliot Aronson, The Handbook of Social Psychology: Research methods, page 237. From the entry mischeck
• Ground into meal, it appeared in a variety of forms, as porridge, hasty pudding, pone, and later as Indian pudding, which was cooked with molasses and was a favorite dish.1948, Ernest Ludlow Bogart, Peacham: The Story of a Vermont Hill Town, pages 68–69. From the entry suppawn

Meaning of hasty

1. adjective Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
2. adjective Made in haste.
3. adjective Ripening or coming to maturity early.

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Questions about hasty in a sentence

How do you use hasty in a sentence?

Hasty is used as an adjective. For example: “Without much thinking about it they made a hasty decision to buy it.”

What is a short sentence with hasty?

“his hasty temperament”

What does hasty mean?

Hasty means acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.