adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hasty conclusion (= one that you reach too quickly, so that you are probably wrong )
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Researchers must beware of drawing hasty conclusions.
a hasty decision (= one that you make without enough thought )
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Don't let yourself be forced into making hasty decisions.
a hasty/speedy departure (= done very quickly and suddenly )
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I was surprised by her hasty departure.
a quick/hasty/hurried breakfast
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I grabbed a quick breakfast and ran to the bus stop.
beat a hasty retreat
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I saw my aunt coming and beat a hasty retreat .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
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By Monday evening, Mattie was beginning to wonder whether she had been too hasty .
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Yet 1 trust that judgments will not be too hasty .
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They were urged not to be too hasty in cutting losses.
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Perhaps, I thought, I'd been too hasty in rejecting Sergia and her muscle-bound cohorts.
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Again, however, we must be careful not to reach a too hasty conclusion.
■ NOUN
decision
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Consumers are urged not to make any hasty decisions and to seek professional advice.
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More sympathetic souls cautioned me against hasty decisions , but the ripples subsided fairly quickly.
departure
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Lucille had seen the Prince's arrival and hasty departure , and had resigned herself to Sharpe's absence.
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During the days that followed Brackenbury's hasty departure , Edward's despondency increased.
retreat
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Then, thanking him, I beat a hasty retreat to the sacristy door and knocked.
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Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat .
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With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
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They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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The Army moved in with a water cannon and tear gas, forcing the marchers into hasty retreat .
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But then, instead of making a hasty retreat , they lurked around the airfield buildings to wait for the explosions.
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He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.
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Beat a hasty retreat , that was what he would do.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
beat a (hasty) retreat
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Any females which are not ripe will either stay away or beat a hasty retreat.
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Appointees interviewed repeated a familiar theme: They all loved their jobs but are beating a retreat without regret.
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He beat a hasty retreat when he spotted me approaching, but it was not hasty enough.
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Objects and fantasy are then used not as a means of venturing out, but to beat a retreat.
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Then, thanking him, I beat a hasty retreat to the sacristy door and knocked.
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They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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""I have to go now,'' said Alex, bidding them a hasty goodbye.
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Go home and think about whether you really want to have the operation -- I don't want you to make any hasty decisions.
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He only had time for a hasty glance at the papers.
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I think I may have been a little hasty about firing him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A hasty plan for accomplishing this came into my mind.
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Dean arrived, hurrying, while Major and I were having a hasty breakfast.
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I don't want to make hasty and furtive love with you.
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Most of the other students were too cool to have done anything hasty like purchase the books for the course.
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The method of reproducing the copies is hasty and inaccurate, so defects accumulate especially fast there.
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They were forced to beat a hasty retreat and arrived at their rendezvous with Morris's patrol on time.
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With decks awash with diesel we beat a hasty retreat back to Lerwick.