Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Too hasty; rash; precipitate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Too hasty; precipitate; rash.
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- adjective
Too hasty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective done with very great haste and without due deliberation
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Examples
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Charlotte Bronte was a year in writing "Jane Eyre," spurred on to new effort by the recent rejection of "The Professor," but to write such a book in a year cannot be called overhasty production when one considers how much of "Jane Eyre" was drawn from Charlotte Bronte's own life, and also how she and her sisters had been experimenting with literature from their earliest childhood.
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It said Foreign Affairs clearly did not understand the consequences of South Africa's "overhasty" action in severing diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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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.
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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.
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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 Sam Sacks 2011
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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 2010
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"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 Michael J. Solender 2010
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If the DRC is a story of overhasty exit, then Niger is a case study in delayed engagement.
Too little, too late for Niger Kevin Watkins 2010
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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 2010
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Nor is King unique as a counterexample to your overhasty generalization.
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