Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an over-hasty manner; with too much haste.

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Examples

  • I do think, however, that you are dismissing Tim Kaine rather overhastily.

    Bayh: Obama Has Not Asked Me To Be His Veep 2009

  • Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and overhastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure.

    The New Organon 2005

  • Now if the very notions of the mind (which are as the soul of words and the basis of the whole structure) be improperly and overhastily abstracted from facts, vague, not sufficiently definite, faulty — in short, in many ways, the whole edifice tumbles.

    The Great Instauration 2005

  • Or worse; the suggested relationship to poetry might prove congenial to those who overhastily assert that much of contemporary theoretical discourse in the humanities, pretending to describe sociohistorical reality, actually commits egregious crimes of genre with every line it writes: Texts that would otherwise be recognized as impressively bad prose-poems instead pass for something called theory (or theoretically-informed analysis).

    Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003

  • Now if the very notions of the mind (which are as the soul of words and the basis of the whole structure) be improperly and overhastily abstracted from facts, vague, not sufficiently definite, faulty — in short, in many ways, the whole edifice tumbles.

    The Great Instauration 2005

  • NNP media spokeswoman Sheila Camerer was responding to an article by judge Burger in the legal journal De Rebus, in which he blamed the backlog in the country's magistrate's courts on the inadequacies of affirmative action magistrates, who he says are often overhastily appointed.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Only when he was smoothed and tranquil, and in a temper to receive it, she would give an account of her actions, if haply he had overhastily taken offence.

    The Confessions 1999

  • The decision to suspend Jenkins had been taken overhastily, he said in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Mr De Ridder stressed that investors should not panic in the wake of Mr Manuel's announcement and commit themselves to offshore investments overhastily.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The brown hair under her nurse's cap looked overhastily adjusted as though on that one day she had other things on her mind.

    Fantastic Voyage Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1966

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