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Meanings of rashly in English

In a hasty and foolhardy manner.

Usage of rashly in English
1
Getting extremely run down, for example, might make a person rashly agreeable.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
2
Never do any act rashly; nor be slow in a religious duty.
The Siksha-Patri of the Svami-Narayana Sect
3
Instead I, rashly perhaps, decided to try and get things moving myself.
The Irish Times
4
I did what I have never done before-speculated rashly; and I lost.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
5
Rousseau rashly put his name to his book; Voltaire was more prudent.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
6
The chamber into which you rashly precipitated yourselves was charged with them.
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
7
Jan sprang rashly to his feet and, losing his balance, rolled over.
Jan: A Dog and a Romance
8
Pohlman told her he did not wish her to do it rashly.
Forty Years in South China: The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talma...
9
I hope, convince you that I ought not to share it rashly.
The Scottish Chiefs
10
It is too late, however, to recall the shaft thus rashly launched.
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
11
He rushed rashly into battle, hoping to fall by the first shot.
The Innocence of Father Brown
12
All I could do was to entreat her not to behave rashly.
The Odd Women
13
Nothing, save folly and a foolish promise rashly asked and rashly given.
Dora Thorne
14
We were not prepared for it, but we rashly continued our way.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891
15
Altogether this gentleman seemed not one to be rashly attacked by daylight.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
16
So I caution you not to spend rashly those two words, sir.
Richard Carvel — Volume 08
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United Kingdom
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