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HURRIEDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a hurried or hasty manner
Example:
sold in haste and at a sacrifice
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Antonym:
unhurriedly (without haste)
Pertainym:
hurried (moving rapidly or performed quickly or in great haste)
Context examples:
We withdrew hurriedly from the chasm, our minds full of this new development and its bearing upon our plans.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I wrote it rather hurriedly.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But in spite of gleams of sunshine, there was thunder in the air, and Champion Harrison had just whispered in my ear that he was quite sure that we should never get through the night without trouble, and was advising me, if it got very bad, to take refuge under the table, when the landlord entered the room hurriedly and handed a note to my uncle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At this moment, however, the rooms bore every mark of having been recently and hurriedly ransacked; clothes lay about the floor, with their pockets inside out; lock-fast drawers stood open; and on the hearth there lay a pile of grey ashes, as though many papers had been burned.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
The man came back hurriedly.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He put the question rather hurriedly; he seemed half to expect an indignant, or at least a disdainful rejection of the offer: not knowing all my thoughts and feelings, though guessing some, he could not tell in what light the lot would appear to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She motioned to me with her short right arm, to shut the umbrella for her; and passing me hurriedly, went into the kitchen.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax hurriedly and hastened towards the South.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
That was the major motif, he hurriedly explained, the big underrunning motif, the cosmic and universal thing.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He dressed hurriedly and descended to his sitting-room.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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