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
However, there was one there--a lady in some position of authority--who took the matter into her own hands, with a degree of common-sense and promptitude that stands much to her honour.
From Submarine U93 by Charles Gilson
