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Meanings of unseemly haste in English

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Usage of unseemly haste in English
1
The hours flicked past in unseemly haste, so completely was she engrossed.
North of Fifty-Three
2
Ogilve tensed, and his eyes returned to his display with unseemly haste.
The Short Victorious War
3
He showed no unseemly haste in dispossessing Mr. Dewey of his elegant home.
The Allen House; Or, Twenty Years Ago and Now
4
The inhabitants of Tours blamed Tristan l'Hermite secretly for unseemly haste.
Maitre Cornelius
5
But one thing invariably distresses me in transatlantic dinners: the unseemly haste in rising.
South Wind
6
You cannot complain that I have acted with unseemly haste.
Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
7
The drill requires that any such request be given its due consideration, without unseemly haste.
The Last Ship
8
The messenger threw it in at the governor's door and made off with unseemly haste.
The Beginnings of New England / Or the Puritan Theocracy in its ...
9
She received the good news languidly and showed no unseemly haste to profit by it.
The Custom of the Country
10
Not for a king's ransom would I have thus jostled thee in such unseemly haste!
Two Little Knights of Kentucky
11
After humiliating defeats in June 1798, that northern radical zeal seemed to evaporate with unseemly haste.
The Irish Times
12
This was the conclusion Dove eventually came to himself-thoughnot with such unseemly haste as Madeleine.
Maurice Guest
13
What occasion was there for such unseemly haste?
A Fool and His Money
14
Why should these youths make such unseemly haste?
The Redemption of David Corson
15
The probability of an early movement of our troops is the excuse urged for such unseemly haste.
My Lady of the North
16
By yakuza standards, it was unseemly haste.
Woken furies
This collocation consists of:
Unseemly haste through the time
Unseemly haste across language varieties
United Kingdom
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