promptitude
Example Sentences
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Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude.
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
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
"Jay Cee here," Jay Cee rapped out with brutal promptitude.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Girls have always known how to cover with shame any insult of that sort, but the power of persuasion comes slow as a promptitude to supersede its necessity.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
