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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 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
- 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). ANC Daily News Briefing
- It was introduced nationally only last month, after an overhasty evaluation process. Times, Sunday Times
- Some warn against being overhasty. The Star (South Africa)
- If the DRC is a story of overhasty exit, then Niger is a case study in delayed engagement. Too little, too late for Niger
- You should not be overhasty . Remember there's a matter of over ten thousand dollars at stake.
- 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. Imperishable Fiction: An Inquiry into the Short Life of the 'Best Sellers' Reveals the Methods Which Brought into Being the Novels that Endure
- However, experience suggests that exacerbation of symptoms may result from overambitious or overhasty attempts at exercise.
- The Senate plays a vital role under both Coalition and Labor in improving the quality of law making and in checking sometimes overhasty governments.
- Nor is King unique as a counterexample to your overhasty generalization. Is "Magic Negro" CD Helping Saltsman In RNC Race?