Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not hasty; not precipitate; not rash; deliberate; slow.

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  • adjective Not hasty, the opposite of hasty.

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ hasty.

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Examples

  • A limb jangles into view, followed in unhasty succession by a second, third, and fourth, bearing a hundred and forty pounds of body between them.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • A limb jangles into view, followed in unhasty succession by a second, third, and fourth, bearing a hundred and forty pounds of body between them.

    INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

  • His strategy in Iraq and Iran was judicious, deliberate, unhasty -- and certain. emphasis mine

    Archive 2003-04-01 2003

  • Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • After a long time (and the chant showed no signs of slackening) he found himself wondering, since Entish was such an ‘unhasty’ language, whether they had yet got further than Good Morning; and if Treebeard was to call the roll, how many days it would take to sing all their names.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

  • The landau, though roomy and comfortable, was, like Una's lion, a "most unhasty beast," and we rolled quite slowly and deliberately over a distinctly uninteresting plain for about twenty miles, until we came to

    A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil T. R. Swinburne

  • A double file of camels with sumptuous housings moved with dignified and unhasty tread after the litters.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • If a man is benevolent, he is sometimes not unhasty.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Mr Bloom turned his largelidded eyes with unhasty friendliness.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • The quiet, unhasty, resolved manner in which the Chaplains to the Forces in France are moving is in striking contrast to the hasty proposals and hasty actions threatening on the less prepared soil at home.

    The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 1911

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