overhasty

Example Sentences

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So maybe I’m being overhasty with this week’s Dinner in Minutes recipe, which prominently features asparagus, a favorite spring vegetable.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2023

At 53, Thompson might be considered too old to play the Danish prince, a 30-year-old student on leave from university after the suspicious death of his father and the overhasty marriage of his mother.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2017

Rio pointed out that the sackings did not prejudge the results of any investigation, but they jolted many employees, some of whom thought them overhasty.

From Economist • Jan. 12, 2017

The lesson for the west is that economic torpor can be prolonged by overhasty policy tightening and by a failure to clean up the banking system.

From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2015

A king comes on the stage who in the plenitude of enjoyment and power is brought by overhasty confidence in his nearest kin to the extremest wretchedness into which men can fall.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von