Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hasty
IPA transcription: [h'eɪsti]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hasty, headlong
    Meaning: excessively quick; "made a hasty exit"; "a headlong rush to sell"
Usage examples
  • Does it justify hasty language?
  • "You are too hasty, sir," she cried.
  • Dr. Hendrix made a hasty move toward the bed.
  • "Be not hasty in your gratitude; you may have cause to recall it."
  • All my brother Dmitri's threats are only hasty words and mean nothing.
  • They did not see or hear me, and I beat a hasty retreat to the library.
  • There Hans bid us come to a halt, and a hasty breakfast was served out.
  • We still call a hasty person a "spitfire", and a calumniator a "spit-poison".
  • At the unexpected outcry in the rear the Raturans halted, and held a hasty council of war.
  • With hasty feet I rushed down the hall out into the cool, sweet air of the planet morning.