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hastily
hastily
adverb hast·i·ly \ˈhā-stə-lē\
Definition of HASTILY
Examples of HASTILY
- <the hastily put together report contained a lot of errors>
- <the congresswoman hastily made her way towards the waiting elevator>
First Known Use of HASTILY
14th century
Related to HASTILY
- Synonyms
- cursorily, headlong, hotfoot, hurriedly, pell-mell, precipitately, precipitously, rashly, on the spur of the moment
- Antonyms
- deliberately, studiedly
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