HASTILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hastily mean? 

• HASTILY (adverb)
  The adverb HASTILY has 1 sense:

1. in a hurried or hasty manner

  Familiarity information: HASTILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HASTILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hurried or hasty manner

Synonyms:

hastily; hurriedly; in haste

Context example:

sold in haste and at a sacrifice

Pertainym:

hasty (excessively quick)

 Context examples 

He pushed me hastily into the open air, and closed the door upon us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The letter, with a direction hardly legible, to "Miss A. E.—," was evidently the one which he had been folding so hastily.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

“And which way are they gone?” said Isabella, turning hastily round.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The all will soon be told, cried Tom hastily, and with affected unconcern; but it is not worth while to bore my father with it now.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Look at the intelligence of him," Scott went on hastily.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Nothing, indeed," thought I, as I struggled to repress a sob, and hastily wiped away some tears, the impotent evidences of my anguish.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"We thought you had gone," said Jo hastily, for she knew he was looking at her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Emma turned round to look at her in consternation, and hastily said, Have you any idea of Mr. Knightley's returning your affection?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

As my fingers released hers, she clutched for my arm hastily.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were no sooner in the passage than Marianne came hastily out of the parlour apparently in violent affliction, with her handkerchief at her eyes; and without noticing them ran up stairs.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)