Adjective, : a hasty visit. ,a hasty decision. ,a hasty glance. ,hasty words. ,a hasty temper. From Dictionary.com.
Then the inevitable regret for his hastiness followed. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
So much for my hastiness to post superficial comments. From Wordnik.com. [Now irrelevant Get-Out-The-Vote post deleted] Reference
An unintentional side effect of my hastiness, I swear. From Wordnik.com. [weapons of massdistraction › Blog archives] Reference
Captain Cook was occasionally subject to a hastiness of temper. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook] Reference
Hardly had I spoken than I regretted the hastiness of my remark. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
'' Excuse, then, sir, the error into which my hastiness has betrayed me. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Mr. Golyadkin cursed himself on the spot for his hastiness and audacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Double] Reference
In this case, McCain wouldn't be--we would be the ones suffering his hastiness. From Wordnik.com. [What the Palin choice tells us about McCain] Reference
In particular green fruit in your dream, denotes your hastiness and disappointed efforts. From Wordnik.com. [kill-fish Diary Entry] Reference
"No, sir; and if I showed some hastiness of temper, excuse me -- I believe it is my failing.". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Patience is the opposite of hastiness and it is the broom that sweeps away the 'mind leaves.'. From Wordnik.com. [Locke Rush: Don't Just Do Something ... Sit There.] Reference
The unfortunate thing is, as NPR admitted, the hastiness with which the incident was handled. From Wordnik.com. [Kathleen Reardon: Offense? Insult? The Firing of Juan Williams] Reference
Ai iz frantiklee werkin rite nao — so plz to forgive teh hastiness uv teh sillybrayshuns…. From Wordnik.com. [Mommmm, I think it’s time to - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Some books are like rich meals you want to enjoy with each bite and savor each word without hastiness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-01-01] Reference
In the hastiness to answer the phone while not being entirely drenched I managed to get both things wrong. From Wordnik.com. [No Man Is an Island: Saying Goodbye to My Grandfather] Reference
I have principally sinned through hastiness of temper and uncharitableness of feeling towards my neighbour. From Wordnik.com. [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference
She would not say that Miss Keeldar's hastiness had hurt her feelings; but it was evident an inward wound galled her. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
You say that Monsieur Chapron's hastiness was not followed by consequences by reason of Monsieur Gorka's presence of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I rose from the sofa, angry at myself for my hastiness, yet full of unreasoning anxiety to be quit of my strange companion. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
Your hastiness comes off as spontaneity most of the time anyhow, making you especially popular in your circle of friends, too. From Wordnik.com. [OkCuPiD quiz says that I'm a...*drum roll*] Reference
My son, 'tis like thee to show thy love for thy dear ones and thy hate for all that is hostile; only curb excessive hastiness. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
I will not call thee to account for thine ignorance, as thou art so little of wit and inconsequential and addicted to hastiness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The hastiness of his reading may be inferred by the frequency with which merely the initials of the Spirit friend are given in the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert] Reference
His acknowledged hasty temper will not account for it; hastiness wounds, but in a generous and ardently loving nature it does not estrange. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference
A man I knew remonstrated with me for my hastiness. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
She reddened at her hastiness, but retrieved it by saying. From Wordnik.com. [Evan Harrington — Complete] Reference
And I will be on guard against two evils: hastiness and indecision. From Wordnik.com. [In the Heart of my Home] Reference
'It is nothing infectious, of course, Sir?' said the mother, a little startled by this hastiness. From Wordnik.com. [Friarswood Post Office] Reference
So, you just sit down at your desk and write a little note, saying that you regret your hastiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Place of Honeymoons] Reference
Pembroke, with increasing vehemence, was running through various invectives against the hastiness of his recall. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
On Nuñez's opening night, she displayed an initial catch of nerves, which registered as a hastiness in her dancing. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Because in my hastiness I lost my sword, and my lady the Queen found it and gave it to me when I had sore need of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Romance] Reference
Thereupon he went downstairs, and I, comparing my hastiness to his calm, acknowledged the man worthy of teaching me some lessons. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
She knew this superficial gentleness, this confession of hastiness, that was only intended to enhance her admiration of the male. From Wordnik.com. [Howards End] Reference
The work of journalists therefore involves notions of speed, fast decision-making, hastiness, and working in accelerated real-time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
I was heartily ashamed of my hastiness when he explained the object of his intrusion, as he immediately did in the most courteous language. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference
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