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 author’s authoritative tone is undermined by the odor of hasty research.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
There was little Richardson could say to inspire a comeback, with Raducanu committing 42 unforced errors throughout the match, and she made a hasty retreat off court after Sierra secured victory.
From BBC ● May 24, 2026
The effect of clipping is context collapse maximized to further a hasty impression of a vaguely famous person.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
Indeed the hasty poem was lacking in music and halting in meter.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
She turned the hastier, lest again The prisoner should renew his strain.
From The Lady of the Lake by Scott, Walter, Sir
When one of the creatures got through, Connery beat the hastiest of retreats.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2020
It was the hastiest state visit the U.S. had ever laid on.
From Time Magazine Archive
Alex Smith beat the hastiest retreat since Xerxes fled to the Hellespont.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hastiest glance at recent European poetry shows the prominence of the mystery of pain.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
This is the shortest, hastiest and worst written letter in the world.
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
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