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incautiously: This is a trick question, so don't answer
hastily.
hasty adj. 1 quick, speedy, swift, rapid, fast, brisk, prompt,
immediate, instantaneous: He made a hasty departure so as not
to be late. 2 careless, rash, precipitate, impetuous,
impulsive, reckless, thoughtless, unthinking, incautious,
heedless, ill-considered, inconsiderate: His was a hasty
decision. 3 quick, speedy, cursory, superficial, fleeting,
passing, slapdash, perfunctory, momentary, brief: I had a hasty
look at the contract, which seemed all right. 4 irritable,
quick-tempered, irascible, testy, passionate, impatient,
hot-tempered, petulant, waspish, volatile, contentious,
choleric, splenetic, bearish, short-tempered, US and Canadian
and Irish cranky: Grandfather needn't have been so hasty with
the poor child.
hatch v. 1 breed, brood, incubate, bring forth: The normal clutch of
three eggs is hatched in a fortnight. 2 devise, contrive,
concoct, design, formulate, originate, invent, dream up, Colloq
cook up: Two of them hatched a scheme to discredit me.
hate v. 1 loathe, abhor, detest, have an aversion to, be averse to,
abominate, dislike, execrate, despise, scorn: I hate the smell
of petrol, it really turns my stomach. 2 be loath, be reluctant
or unwilling or disinclined; resist, shrink or flinch from,
dislike, shrink from: I hate to tell you what I really think.
She hated revealing Bill's affair to his wife.
--n. 3 hatred, abhorrence, loathing, odium, animosity, animus,
antipathy, aversion, hostility, antagonism, malice, enmity,
detestation: He didn't believe he could feel so much hate for
one person.
hateful adj. 1 loathsome, detestable, abhorrent, horrid, horrible,
abominable, odious, execrable, despicable, scurvy, obnoxious,
heinous, foul, contemptible, repugnant, repulsive, repellent,
revolting, vile: No vice is universally so hateful as
ingratitude. 2 malignant, malefic, malevolent, malicious, evil,
mean, spiteful, contemptuous: She gave me a hateful glance.
haughty adj. arrogant, proud, superior, self-important, smug,
self-satisfied, complacent, pretentious, conceited, egotistical,