Rashly
['ræʃli]
Definition
(adv.) In a rash manner; with precipitation.
Typed by Dewey
Examples
- Be assured, that for my own sake, as well as your's, I will not rashly encounter danger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I can depend upon myself for having no go-ahead theories that I would rashly bring into practice. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It cannot be good to act rashly, said Rosamond, with serene wisdom. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Don't be anxious about me, remember I am your 'prudent Amy', and be sure I will do nothing rashly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But in this doubtful stage of Lydgate's introduction he was helped by what we mortals rashly call good fortune. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She is peculiar, and more dangerous to take as a wife--rashly. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I did not set this down as a discovery, rashly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Perhaps I had too rashly over-leaped conventionalities; and he, like St. John, saw impropriety in my inconsiderateness. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Rashly and uselessly, I reproached her for the silence which had kept me until that moment in ignorance of the truth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But Mr. Bulstrode's thought was busy, and he was not a man to act or speak rashly. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Also, how very wise it is in people placed in an exceptional position to hold their tongues and not rashly declare how such position galls them! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Forgive me, said the Jew; I spoke rashly. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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