Vocabulary
Hastily
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
with excessive speed or urgency; hurriedly.
Urdu meaning
تعجیلا، جلدی سے، جلدی جلدی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The Establishment Division, by contrast, relies on the performance evaluation report, which is often written hastily, filled with diplomatic phrases, bears no relation to the officer`s actual contribution, and lacks the virtue of timelines.
- AT the beginning of June, an Afghan journalist was arrested by Islamabad Police and hastily deported to Afghanistan.
- Keeping in view the security situation, and the well-being of the foreign players, the PCB hastily and perhaps due to lack of better judgement announced it would shift the tournament to the UAE.
- KDA regulations regarding heritage sites place greater responsibility on oversight and protection than on hastily issuing such certificates.
- In the hastily constructed temple in which Trump sits as a presiding deity, a different mantra is being chanted.
Synonyms
quickly, hurriedly, in a hurry, fast, swiftly, rapidly, speedily, briskly, expeditiously,
Antonyms
slowly, carefully, deliberately
Curator example
“maybe I acted too hastily”
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