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What does hastily mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hastily? Here's what it means.

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.
Cale waved sadly as Biorman reboarded the ship and the hatch hastily closed.
But the victims moved into hastily built shelters nearby and caused him aggravation for at least four years.
I hastily finished laying the fire before going down below the stairs to the kitchen.
A sob caught in her throat and she masked it, hastily dragging on the cigarette in quick, short puffs.
Norfolk died in January 1476, and John the Elder hastily moved to reoccupy Caister Castle, as a letter from John the Younger indicates.

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