Synonym: fast, fleet, hotheaded, hurried, impetuous, impulsive, premature, quick, quick-tempered, rapid, rash, reckless, speedy, sudden, swift, unprepared. Similar words: nasty, tasty, dynasty, plaster cast, style, musty, frosty, honesty. Meaning: ['heɪstɪ] adj. 1. excessively quick 2. done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
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91 A hasty note from Mary asks her to disregard a scandalous rumor.
92 In spite of the increased emphasis on planning and focused decision-making, admission to local authority care was often hasty and ill-planned.
93 The method of reproducing the copies is hasty and inaccurate, so defects accumulate especially fast there.
94 To a centenarian from a less hasty era, the change can not but seem for the worse.
95 They were urged not to be too hasty in cutting losses.
96 As a general principle, hasty legislation does more harm than good.
97 Yet 1 trust that judgments will not be too hasty.
98 The Democrats have showed the same hasty overreaching in other ways.
99 He had taken only a few hasty steps when he heard the tread of feet on the wooden steps above his head.
100 Beat a hasty retreat, that was what he would do.
101 After a hasty consultation, Patrick Ollier, who was down to ask the next question, gave a bland reply.
102 But then, instead of making a hasty retreat, they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.
103 Taxi trials resulted in a flat tail wheel tyre and a hasty change was undertaken.
104 With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
105 It has reversed some policies,[http://sentencedict.com/hasty.html] such as the hated Employment Contracts Act and the hasty privatisation of the accident compensation scheme.
106 It is covered with a hasty scrawl in Darwin's hand.
107 A belated rush to help is under way, complete with the good intentions and hazards that hasty rescues invariably bring.
108 Perhaps, I thought, I'd been too hasty in rejecting Sergia and her muscle-bound cohorts.
109 A hasty plan for accomplishing this came into my mind.
110 I don't want to make hasty and furtive love with you.
111 He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.
112 The hasty flight to apparently universal rules often gives philosophical notions only a specious air of universality.
113 More sympathetic souls cautioned me against hasty decisions, but the ripples subsided fairly quickly.
114 Back indoors, she brewed coffee and ate a hasty breakfast before settling down to work.
115 I think I may have been a little hasty about firing him.
116 Return lines within the hasty keys.
117 Hasty marriage seldom turn out well.
118 Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.
119 Don't be hasty in generalization.
120 Too hasty a generalisation would have misled us.