hasty
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It added, “The rush to complete the project led to hasty and botched work that was not remediated before the project was finished and the fencing removed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
The effect of clipping is context collapse maximized to further a hasty impression of a vaguely famous person.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
What follows is a story told in hasty paragraphs, pithy fragments and cynical dispatches from a conspiracy theory-infested America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
The lack of support that made the hasty, informal exit necessary was mind-blowing, he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
And in hasty words she told them about Rabadash's expedition.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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The FDA reached its decision in 97 days, about 40 percent of the usual timeline for such a review, but wisely refused to be browbeat into a hastier conclusion.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
Other nations, reckoning with their own wrongdoings, have been far hastier to arrive at this point.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2017
"The Delhi government is already working toward tackling this situation and now that we've picked up this report, the government will take hastier steps to tackle the situation," A.K.
From Reuters ● Feb. 13, 2012
Scarcely were the words out of his mouth than Ridgway was proved a greater exaggerator and hastier reporter than Hanley.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There was hurried dressing in the dark of the bed-tent, hasty mounting, and a hastier ride through the cool night air.
From The Lure of the Dim Trails by Bower, B. M.
When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2020
Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is something piquant in learning that the city is the hastiest construction on the continent.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
This is the shortest, hastiest and worst written letter in the world.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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