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Meanings of overhasty in English

Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.

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        Usage of overhasty in English
        1
        Thus they would cut off their goodly promise of overhasty thirst for glory.
        The Danish History, Books I-IX
        2
        There seems to be some hitch in Legge's embassy; I believe we were overhasty.
        The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
        3
        Desperate not to sound overhasty I confessed to him, 'I can't do this alone.
        Shadows in Bronze
        4
        The thane was overhasty certainly, but one does not think with pain gnawing at one.
        Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
        5
        He declared, that, if he should be overhasty, he would most assuredly ruin every thing.
        Within an Inch of His Life
        6
        He frankly confesses his own shortcomings: 'You will find me', he writes, 'often overhasty, often frivolous.
        The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
        7
        Our political system must, indeed, be made must be placed in the way of overhasty and ill-considered lawmaking.
        Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
        8
        He did, indeed, blame the Egyptian's overhasty action; but he gave no orders for following up the galley.
        A Thorny Path — Volume 06
        9
        The strikers may have been overhasty.
        Freedom's Battle / Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings ...
        10
        The question was frequently answered in a spirit antagonistic to Wagner; but many of the answers were overhasty and short-sighted.
        A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
        11
        "My lord," said Llewelyn, deeply embarrassed by his king's behaviour, "do not be overhasty.
        Tuck
        12
        "I may have been overhasty, my lord," he said hesitatingly, "but still do I think that the woman was far from canny."
        The Black Douglas
        Overhasty through the time