Hasty
adjective
Done or made too quickly, without thinking or care.
In a hasty decision, she sold her car.
Often appears as...
- make a hasty decision
- a hasty retreat
adjective
Eager or too eager to do something.
He was hasty to finish the project and made several mistakes.
Often appears as...
- hasty to judge
- hasty to conclude
adjective
Characterized by speed; swift.
He left with a hasty pace, not saying goodbye.
Often appears as...
- a hasty departure
- a hasty glance
adjective
Done or made too quickly, without thinking or care.
In a hasty decision, she sold her car.
Often appears as...
- make a hasty decision
- a hasty retreat
adjective
Eager or too eager to do something.
He was hasty to finish the project and made several mistakes.
Often appears as...
- hasty to judge
- hasty to conclude
adjective
Characterized by speed; swift.
He left with a hasty pace, not saying goodbye.
Often appears as...
- a hasty departure
- a hasty glance
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often suggests a bad outcome due to lack of thought.
Her hasty decision led to a failed investment.
Pro Tip 2/3Caution in Use
Using 'hasty' can imply criticism of someone's actions.
Calling his approach hasty implied he was careless.
Pro Tip 3/3Use with Actions
Best used with actions or decisions, not with people.
Her hasty signing of the contract was a mistake.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often suggests a bad outcome due to lack of thought.
Her hasty decision led to a failed investment.
Pro Tip 2/3Caution in Use
Using 'hasty' can imply criticism of someone's actions.
Calling his approach hasty implied he was careless.
Pro Tip 3/3Use with Actions
Best used with actions or decisions, not with people.
Her hasty signing of the contract was a mistake.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Implication
Often suggests a bad outcome due to lack of thought.
Her hasty decision led to a failed investment.
Pro Tip 2/3Caution in Use
Using 'hasty' can imply criticism of someone's actions.
Calling his approach hasty implied he was careless.
Pro Tip 3/3Use with Actions
Best used with actions or decisions, not with people.
Her hasty signing of the contract was a mistake.
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On sincere and authentic...
want you to be hasty but we want you be deliberative when people know that women have confidence in their vision their knowledge their judgment and the plan that they have to get the job done and that they're going to act their leadership will be very very respected
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Meera Vijayann: Find...
So as a writer and gender activist, I have written extensively on women, but this time, I realized it was different, because a part of me realized I was a part of that young woman too, and I decided I wanted to change this. So I did something spontaneous, hasty.
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How you can help...
And my concern is that we're seeing governments right around the world rolling out hasty policy decisions that might actually trigger much more serious consequences when it comes to our speech. And even if we could decide which speech to take up or take down,
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Drug Tunnel PIPE National...
the agents spot hasty construction and fear collapse hey I'm going checking the integrity as we crawl we check the walls just how stable the ground is as we probably just keep checking and if we see anything that's up gonna challenge us we back out
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A young poet tells the...
You want nothing more than to disappear, but your heart can't salvage enough remnants to leave. But joy -- joy is the armor we carried across the borders of our broken homeland. A hasty mix of stories and faces
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Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
And I'd be wrong to dis that completely. Moving over, we come, of course, to consultancy. I thought it was very indecent of Accenture to ditch Tiger Woods in such a sort of hurried and hasty way.
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109-Year-Old Veteran and...
braver stronger I could see could ever do is opening here not a lot going hasty no you don't know boy yeah you see a soldier would have gone y'all see him turn around go back this way
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Meet the Bicycle Lizard...
that leg action the way it runs pumping its back legs akimbo has earned it the name bicycle lizard the point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty
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Freaky Lizard PIPE National...
name bicycle lizard the point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty retreat rocketing up the nearest arboreal loft
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Folding way-new origami...
density she got a date so they were Emily so it was a little hasty so they want to see what she
Video examples
On sincere and authentic...
want you to be hasty but we want you be deliberative when people know that women have confidence in their vision their knowledge their judgment and the plan that they have to get the job done and that they're going to act their leadership will be very very respected
Video examples
Meera Vijayann: Find...
So as a writer and gender activist, I have written extensively on women, but this time, I realized it was different, because a part of me realized I was a part of that young woman too, and I decided I wanted to change this. So I did something spontaneous, hasty.
Video examples
How you can help...
And my concern is that we're seeing governments right around the world rolling out hasty policy decisions that might actually trigger much more serious consequences when it comes to our speech. And even if we could decide which speech to take up or take down,
Video examples
Drug Tunnel PIPE National...
the agents spot hasty construction and fear collapse hey I'm going checking the integrity as we crawl we check the walls just how stable the ground is as we probably just keep checking and if we see anything that's up gonna challenge us we back out
Video examples
A young poet tells the...
You want nothing more than to disappear, but your heart can't salvage enough remnants to leave. But joy -- joy is the armor we carried across the borders of our broken homeland. A hasty mix of stories and faces
Video examples
Rory Sutherland: Sweat...
And I'd be wrong to dis that completely. Moving over, we come, of course, to consultancy. I thought it was very indecent of Accenture to ditch Tiger Woods in such a sort of hurried and hasty way.
Video examples
109-Year-Old Veteran and...
braver stronger I could see could ever do is opening here not a lot going hasty no you don't know boy yeah you see a soldier would have gone y'all see him turn around go back this way
Video examples
Meet the Bicycle Lizard...
that leg action the way it runs pumping its back legs akimbo has earned it the name bicycle lizard the point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty
Video examples
Freaky Lizard PIPE National...
name bicycle lizard the point of the scary frill is to give the lizard enough time to beat a hasty retreat rocketing up the nearest arboreal loft
Video examples
Folding way-new origami...
density she got a date so they were Emily so it was a little hasty so they want to see what she
Example 1 of 10
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Jacques Barzun
American Educator
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
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Robert Plant
British Musician
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
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Tim Cope
Australian Author
I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.
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Woodrow Wilson
American President
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Will Durant
American Historian
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Robert Southey
English Poet
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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Ara Parseghian
American Athlete
I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
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Anna Held
Polish Entertainer
I don't believe in hasty marriages.
Quote examples
Jacques Barzun
American Educator
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Quote examples
Robert Plant
British Musician
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
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Paul Theroux
American Novelist
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look, to me, illiterate. They look hasty, like someone babbling.
Quote examples
Tim Cope
Australian Author
I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.
Quote examples
Woodrow Wilson
American President
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
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Will Durant
American Historian
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Robert Southey
English Poet
How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
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Robert Frost
American Poet
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
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Ara Parseghian
American Athlete
I don't make hasty, impulsive decisions.
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Anna Held
Polish Entertainer
I don't believe in hasty marriages.
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