Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a hasty manner; quickly; speedily.
  • Precipitately; rashly; from sudden impulse or excitement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
  • adverb Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
  • adverb Passionately; impatiently.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
  • adverb obsolete Soon, shortly.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a hurried or hasty manner

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

hasty +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Doctors, lawyers, and dentists began throwing up turbines or buying shares in hastily erected wind farms to take easy advantage of the benefits.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • Amylin hastily scheduled a conference call with analysts and investors Tuesday to discuss the FDA's action.

    U.S. Delays Approval of Diabetes Treatment Jonathan D. Rockoff 2010

  • Reacting and creating legislation hastily is not good government.

    Obama to detail broad financial reform 2009

  • Doctors, lawyers, and dentists began throwing up turbines or buying shares in hastily erected wind farms to take easy advantage of the benefits.

    The Elusive Green Economy 2009

  • “Goodbye, Arden,” I called hastily, peeking from around the tree and waving.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • “Goodbye, Arden,” I called hastily, peeking from around the tree and waving.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • “Goodbye, Arden,” I called hastily, peeking from around the tree and waving.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • “Goodbye, Arden,” I called hastily, peeking from around the tree and waving.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Once home I take those notes, sometimes just a phrase hastily scrawled, and flesh it out into a story.

    Why I Love the Doctor's Office Dark Worlds Club 2009

  • A documenter's journal rested on my lap, capturing empirical relevance in hastily scribbled notes.

    The Salvation of La Purisima by T. M. Spooner 2006

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