hurriedly

B1
US /ˈhɝɪdli/ UK /ˈhʌɹɪdli/
adv Freq #41527

Meanings

  1. 1
    adv

    in a hurried or hasty manner

    The way we buried them so hurriedly was disgraceful.

  2. 2
    adv

    In a hurried manner.

    The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

Etymology

From hurried + -ly.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adv · in a hurried or hasty manner hastilyin haste

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