Done with very great haste and without due deliberation.
1 Thus they would cut off their goodly promise of overhasty thirst for glory.
2 There seems to be some hitch in Legge's embassy; I believe we were overhasty .
3 Desperate not to sound overhasty I confessed to him, 'I can't do this alone.
4 The thane was overhasty certainly, but one does not think with pain gnawing at one.
5 He declared, that, if he should be overhasty , he would most assuredly ruin every thing.
6 He frankly confesses his own shortcomings: 'You will find me', he writes, 'often overhasty , often frivolous.
7 Our political system must, indeed, be made must be placed in the way of overhasty and ill-considered lawmaking.
8 He did, indeed, blame the Egyptian's overhasty action; but he gave no orders for following up the galley.
9 The strikers may have been overhasty .
10 The question was frequently answered in a spirit antagonistic to Wagner; but many of the answers were overhasty and short-sighted.
11 "My lord," said Llewelyn, deeply embarrassed by his king's behaviour, "do not be overhasty .
12 "I may have been overhasty , my lord," he said hesitatingly, "but still do I think that the woman was far from canny."
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