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impulsively

adverb as in imprudently

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Adults nappers can tolerate frustration longer and feel less impulsive.

At the end of the eighth season, Marshall is offered judgeship and impulsively accepts before talking to Lily.

Cons: Remembering what happened last time you impulsively embarked on a new fitness venture.

Lane then impulsively kisses Joan in her office, a move that she gracefully dismisses without further wounding his pride.

The perpetrators were impulsively violent and willing to kill.

On the other hand, she seems entirely capable of announcing for president impulsively.

Miss Thangue replied, impulsively, "I have often wondered if you numbered satiety among your complexities!"

Impulsively I reached out, and pressed the parts of the ring into a close-fitting whole, when, lo!

She held out her hand impulsively, and her eyes were smiling as she said; "We will be generous, Monsieur Harkness—"

She could not resist a touch of irony in the last words, and Ruth, who had been ready to take her hand impulsively, was stung.

"Oh, but Cordelia, that isn't quite fair," she began impulsively; but for once Cordelia forgot her politeness and interrupted.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to impulsively, such as: carelessly, foolishly, impetuously, hastily, and rashly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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