hastily

English edit

hasty +‎ -ly

hastily (comparative more hastily, superlative most hastily)

In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
  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[.]
(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 [...].

in a hasty manner