promptitude
Example Sentences
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Also, the House shoved along to the Senate with dutiful promptitude, appropriation bills to run the Government until July 1, 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, there was something depraved about the easy hang of his well-made, collegiate clothes; something free-and-easy, almost loose, about the clear voice in which he answered their questions with unabashed promptitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Jay Cee here," Jay Cee rapped out with brutal promptitude.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Although so rough and coarse in manners that neither scholar nor child could remain with him, the great talents of Herrera, and the promptitude with which he used them, brought him abundant commissions.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
