hurriedly

CEFRB1

/ˈhɝɪdli/

adverb

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01
adverb
Very quickly because there is little time.
02
adverb
Extra detail
In a hurried manner.

Examples

I got a glimpse of the wrestler as he hurriedly left the gymnasium.
I got a quick glimpse of Takanohana as he hurriedly left the gymnasium.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 2
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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If you eat so hurriedly your throat will get blocked.
“In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”
But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.

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“In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.”
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 182
The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories, Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71
If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362
But Johnson [...] hurriedly [c]hanged his plea to guilty.
1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 96
The result was that trains ran as normal on November 7 and 9, although there was still disruption on Saturday November 5, owing to the short notice as rosters were hurriedly rewritten. Rosters are typically agreed a week in advance.
2022 November 16, Mel Holley, “Network News: Rail strikes halted to allow for "intensive negotiations"”, in RAIL, number 970, page 8

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Origin

adverb

From hurried + -ly.

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adverb

She blank packed her bags because the taxi was waiting downstairs.