hastily
adverb
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Synonyms & Antonyms for hastily
Synonyms
cursorily, headlong, hotfoot, hurriedly, pell-mell, precipitately, precipitously, rashly
Antonyms
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Examples of hastily in a Sentence
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Adie’s body was hastily buried along the shores of the country of Fife, in an ignominious spot. — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, "Wanted: The Missing Bones of a Scottish ‘Witch’," 3 Sep. 2019 So many Americans were killed — about 1,100 — that bodies had to be buried hastily and often in no particular place. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Coming home: Remains of Marine killed in World War II buried at Miramar National Cemetery," 18 Aug. 2019 The group, and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, hastily arranged the forum after the rampage the previous weekend in El Paso and another hours later in Dayton, Ohio, that left 9 people dead. — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, "Beto O'Rourke calls for national gun registry, licenses and mandatory buyback of assault-style weapons," 16 Aug. 2019 Over several hours, in successive waves on Sunday, different districts filled with the sound of protesters erecting and just as hastily taking down their improvised barricades. — Yanan Wang, The Christian Science Monitor, "Why Hong Kong protests ebb and flow, like water," 5 Aug. 2019 The columns of exhausted travelers walking behind hastily buried the bodies. — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, "A storyteller chronicles the mass migrations that define our age," 17 July 2019 Ani had some need to wash blood out of her clothing hastily. — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, "13 Reasons Why season 3 binge recap," 23 Aug. 2019 As the journey moves from land to hastily built raft (and unapologetic echoes of Mark Twain), the two form a genuine bond that gives the movie its heart. — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, "‘The Peanut Butter Falcon’: Where to see groundbreaking buddy film in South Florida," 22 Aug. 2019 More than 550 other Kuwaitis remain unaccounted for — and nobody knows how many hundreds of Iraqi soldiers were hastily laid to rest in the dark. — Bobby Ghosh, The Denver Post, "Guest Commentary: Iraq and Kuwait are beginning a beautiful friendship," 18 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hastily.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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