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What does hastily mean?

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Adverb
  1. In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
  2. (obsolete) Soon, shortly.
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When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, a new leadership hastily jettisoned the Party's name, and soon began to repudiate most of its past.
Colbert hastily collected the old men and boys of the tribe, and ambuscaded the Creeks so successfully that not one of them escaped.
He lingered in the doorway and waited as she hastily fastened the laces and tied the anklet around her heel.
A battle-ravaged legion could have only two maniples, a hastily reorganised one could have ten.
The hastily lowered ladder leaned at the back, looking as though it would come crashing down at any moment.
But the victims moved into hastily built shelters nearby and caused him aggravation for at least four years.

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