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Meanings of extemporaneous in inglés

With little or no preparation or forethought.

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Usage of extemporaneous in inglés
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They were delivered without much preparation and were purely extemporaneous in character.
Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
2
The closing of a door put an end to this extemporaneous address.
Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Withi...
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She had accidentally sent her unedited, extemporaneous outpouring to everyone she knew.
Mom over miami
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His hearer and his extemporaneous lecture plainly slipped out of his mind.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock
5
I tell the Bowery boys I'm what is called an extemporaneous talker.
Dave Ranney / Or, Thirty Years on the Bowery; An Autobiography
6
They are all extemporaneous productions, nor has any one a single alteration.
Life and Letters of Robert Browning
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He is an able debater, having few superiors as an extemporaneous speaker.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
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It was an extemporaneous prayer; but it lacked no detail on that account.
The Brentons
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We entered the ministry with a mortal horror of extemporaneous speaking.
Around the Tea-Table
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There was no fear of the extemporaneous, of variety spicing her infinite custom.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
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Others, delivered in various places, appear to have been more or less extemporaneous.
President Wilson's Addresses
12
He spoke wholly without notes and his effort was largely extemporaneous.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
13
Amid the greetings and extemporaneous speeches she suddenly realized that she was exhausted.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
14
Mr. Gerald Douglass was rambling about, keeping step to his own extemporaneous whistle.
The Girl Scout Pioneers; Or, Winning the First B. C.
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Canning's attention, while at Eton, was strongly turned to extemporaneous speaking.
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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She was a capital extemporaneous speaker, and had held prominent offices in different clubs.
I Spy
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