How do you use the word "hasty" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "hasty" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "hasty": There is no need to draw a hasty conclusion. Being a hasty person, he is likely to jump to conclusions.

Hasty Meaning

/ˈheɪsti/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjActing or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.

adjActing or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time., Made in haste.

Sentence Examples

There is no need to draw a hasty conclusion.

Being a hasty person, he is likely to jump to conclusions.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

headlong precipitous precipitate

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

His ____ decision to quit his job without savings led to financial problems.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

You should not make a ____ decision that you might eventually come to regret in the future.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English hasty, of obscure origin. Likely a new formation in Middle English equivalent to haste + -y, found as in other Germanic languages (Old Frisian hâstich, Middle Dutch haestich (> Dutch haastig (“hasty”)), Middle Low German hastich (“hasty”), German hastig, Danish hastig, Swedish hastig (“hasty”)); otherwise possibly representing an assimilation to the foregoing of Middle English hastive, hastif (> English hastive), from Old French hastif (Modern French hâtif), from Frankish *haifst (“violence”), ultimately of the same Germanic origin.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"I have written these hasty lines in no small hurry, and send them to you, not from an opinion, that they contain any thing worth imparting, but merely in compliance with your and Mr Simon's request[…]" — 1756, Royal society of London, The Philosophical Transactions and Collections: Abridged and Disposed Under General Heads, page 627:

"Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret." — 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:

"But about three o'clock George's ear caught the hasty and decided click of a horse's hoof coming behind them at some distance and jogged Phineas by the elbow." — 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:

"[We] built a hasty fort of sawlogs and boulders back of our campsite, well stocked with powder and ball, water and meat, in case there was trouble." — 2013 October 8, Robert F. Jones, Deadville: A Novel, Skyhorse, →ISBN:

"... how to make the trees themselves more tall, more spread, and more hasty and sudden than they use to be." — 1826 [1626], Francis Bacon, The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Containing Sylva sylvarum: or, a natural history, In ten centuries, page 209:

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