Definition of Hasteful

1. hasty [adj] - See also: hasty

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hasteful

hast
hasta
hasta la vista
hastas
hastate
hastate leaf
hastated
hastately
haste
haste makes waste
hasted
hasteful (current term)
hastely
hasten
hastened
hastener
hasteners
hastenest
hasteneth
hastening
hastenings
hastens
hastes
hastier
hastiest
hastile

Literary usage of Hasteful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"Nor does delay The color of my hasteful business suit. I bring dispatches for our great Commander ; And hasted hither with design to wait His rising, ..."

2. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"Nor does delay The colour of my hasteful business suit. I bring dispatches for our great Commander; And hasted hither with design to wait His rising, ..."

3. The Land of Poco Tiempo by Charles Fletcher Lummis (1893)
"The side which loses shall pay the dance—that is, trudge with un- hasteful burros to the Manzanos, twenty miles away, and bring back wood for the great ..."

4. Cicero of Arpinum: A Political and Literary Biography Being a Contribution by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler (1914)
"This hasteful energy of Cicero was necessary. A fictitious case (ib. 1, 6) of provincial extortion in Achaia had been set in motion by Verres and his ..."

5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1861)
"\VE debted to an esteemed friend and correspondent, whom our readers have * prize, and that highly, for the subjoined hasteful sketch of A ..."

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