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UK
/ˌəʊvəhˈeɪsti/
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ADJECTIVE
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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
How To Use overhasty In A Sentence
- The Senate plays a vital role under both Coalition and Labor in improving the quality of law making and in checking sometimes overhasty governments.
- It is in my mind that perhaps we would be overhasty in sending Kellen off into the mountains entirely alone," Morusil said slowly, speaking for the first time. Tran Siberian
- However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise.
- Moreover, both factions act precipitously, before events have run their course, basing their actions on incomplete evidence and overhasty inferences from what they see.
- Three senior judges agreed to remove the most damning passage, but Lord Neuberger later admitted he may have been "overhasty" in removing his comments at the request of Jonathan Sumption QC, working on behalf of the Foreign Secretary, David Miliband. Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news
- Today, these principles are at risk of becoming mere afterthoughts in the overhasty and indiscriminate assault on the flawed public realm the coalition has inherited from Labour. Liberal Democrats: A year of living dangerously | Editorial
- He said that overhasty assumptions that 'freedom' and 'democracy' will amount to the same thing must be treated with care. Times, Sunday Times
- rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
- Nor is King unique as a counterexample to your overhasty generalization. Is "Magic Negro" CD Helping Saltsman In RNC Race?
- The lawyer's "ally is chance," and his "task is to disrupt an overhasty reliance on what appears to be the truth," says the rather fiendish omniscient narrator in one story. Suburban Tensions In a Gauzy Glow