hasty

Infinitive complement

• dismiss: While most of us are probably fed-up with DAT tapes, perhaps you were a bit hasty to dismiss tapes for storage, Derek!
• conclude: It would be hasty to conclude from this that the new constitution will really tender them this opportunity in the future.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• do: So astrologers are not inclined to do anything hasty.
• start: Thou need na start awa sae hasty, wi bickering brattle!

Modifies a noun

• retreat: Tommy beats a hasty retreat with Lauren, leaving Tony to cover for him.
• pudding: In summer milk is supplied with hasty pudding, in winter treacle.
• temper: He must, however, as the event shewed, have been of a very hasty temper.
• exit: They made a hasty exit into the passage that led to their rooms whence muffled laughter exploded.
• departure: His last concrete memory was of his hasty departure from Luna Lab.
• glance: One hasty glance over his shoulder, He saw in a flash what were wrong.

Modifying Another Word

• too: Like Romeo, she was too hasty in rushing into marriage.
• somewhat: You have no doubt anticipated almost all I could offer from a somewhat hasty glance.
• rather: It turns out that I was being rather hasty.
• so: Now as our fellow workers were so hasty we were bound to come out on strike.
• little: Perhaps I was a little hasty in dismissing streaming video.
• very: TOP SECRET - 5 - TOP SECRET I have given a very hasty review of the Pacific situation in general terms.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Look at it that way, and the rush to judgment after last week's Royal meeting seems hasty, to say the least.
• make: This aspect causes you to make hasty, sometimes regrettable decisions.