hastily
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- r in a hurried or hasty manner
hastily, he scanned the headlines
- The episode showed Clinton and his aides acting hastily, naively and cavalierly in brushing aside Baird's early warning that she had employed two undocumented Peruvians in her home.
- Kibaki was hastily sworn in and promptly banned live TV as the violence surged in the streets.
- In 1915 Ben-Gurion, expelled from Palestine for his nationalist and socialist activities, chose to go to New York City, where he hastily taught himself English and plunged head on .