hastily

hasty +‎ -ly

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪstɪli/

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• Hyphenation: hast‧i‧ly

hastily (comparative more hastily, superlative most hastily)

1. In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     The departure was not unduly prolonged. […] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.

   • 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:

     The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.

   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40:

     Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

2. (obsolete) Soon, shortly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

• See also Thesaurus:quickly