RASHLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rashly mean? 

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

1. in a hasty and foolhardy manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RASHLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a hasty and foolhardy manner

Synonyms:

headlong; rashly

Context example:

he fell headlong in love with his cousin

Pertainym:

rash (imprudently incurring risk)

 Context examples 

Be assured that for my own sake, as well as yours, I will not rashly encounter danger.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Don't be anxious about me, remember I am your 'prudent Amy', and be sure I will do nothing rashly.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Even when I did get through the morning with tolerable credit, there was not much gained but dinner; for Miss Murdstone never could endure to see me untasked, and if I rashly made any show of being unemployed, called her brother's attention to me by saying, Clara, my dear, there's nothing like work—give your boy an exercise; which caused me to be clapped down to some new labour, there and then.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and considerateness whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Following Mr. Dashwood's directions, and making Mrs. Northbury her model, Jo rashly took a plunge into the frothy sea of sensational literature, but thanks to the life preserver thrown her by a friend, she came up again not much the worse for her ducking.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)