hastily

comparative more hastily · superlative most hastily

1. In a hasty manner; quickly or hurriedly.

   Eudemis moved hastily but as unobtrusively as he could through the gaping crowd[.]

   1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 40

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   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.

   1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

   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.

   1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251

2. obsoleteSoon, shortly.

   she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC