[ UK /hˈe‍ɪsti/ ]
[ US /ˈheɪsti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation
    hasty marriage seldom proveth well
    rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
    wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king
    hasty makeshifts take the place of planning
  2. excessively quick
    a headlong rush to sell
    made a hasty exit
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How To Use hasty In A Sentence

  • In my hasty departure from home I had missed my ordination. A Channel of Peace
  • So saying, he exhorted Brown to be hasty in dispatching his breakfast, as, ‘the frost having given way, the scent would lie this morning primely. Chapter XXV
  • Thereupon Shawahi came forward and kissing the ground before the Queen, took the hem of her garment and laid it on her head, saying, O Queen, by my claim for fosterage, be not hasty with him, more by token of thy knowledge that this poor wretch is a stranger, who hath adventured himself and suffered what none ever suffered before him, and Allah (to whom belong Might and The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Readers may safely treat his latest intervention as being what it appears to be: hasty, heated, and insubstantial.
  • We beat a hasty retreat to the nearby town of Petersfield. Times, Sunday Times
  • A hasty man is seldom out of trouble. 
  • I tell ya what, de next time yer comin inta town bring de auld bike wit ya and ya can chain it to de pole outside, ‘sniggered Jim backing out the door, deciding that it was time to beat a hasty retreat.’
  • The campaign warns people not to let the caller in if they are suspicious, or to be pressured into a hasty decision and pay any money up front.
  • I think they've been a bit hasty. Times, Sunday Times
  • The journal must come out four times a year with the requisite number of articles in it, on occasion forcing hasty and sometimes ill-considered decisions.
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