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  • adjective comparative form of hasty: more hasty

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Examples

  • Its plan to appeal so quickly is partly designed to pressure Boeing to file a hastier, and thus potentially weaker, appeal than it might otherwise have prepared, said people familiar with the EU's thinking.

    EU Plans Tactical Appeal in Boeing Case Daniel Michaels 2011

  • No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly.

    ɘloЯ 2010

  • 'Generosity' is a slimmer, hastier, more crowd-pleasing book than anything Powers has yet written.

    Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009

  • 'Generosity' is a slimmer, hastier, more crowd-pleasing book than anything Powers has yet written.

    Old Media Monday: Reviewing the Reviewers Omnivoracious 2009

  • Holland undertook a hastier toilet as he passed through the kitchen garden, rinsing his hands at the well.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Holland undertook a hastier toilet as he passed through the kitchen garden, rinsing his hands at the well.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • Holland undertook a hastier toilet as he passed through the kitchen garden, rinsing his hands at the well.

    The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

  • A special train was already waiting at the station, along with his personal Douglas DC-3 and three other planes in case he had to make an even hastier exit.

    Stalin’s Tipping Point 2007

  • The father, with a hastier step, pursues his way to the coach.

    Dombey and Son 2007

  • I must however own, that the reasons which I had to offer against taking your advice were so obvious, that I thought you would have seen them yourself, and been determined by them, against your own hastier counsel. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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