What's the difference between hastily and nastily?
Hastily
Definition:
(adv.) In haste; with speed or quickness; speedily; nimbly.
(adv.) Without due reflection; precipitately; rashly.
(adv.) Passionately; impatiently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blatter announced his decision to resign during a hastily scheduled press conference, stating he will leave Fifa after 17 years at the helm.
(2) Hastily packing his one-man tent, the youngster set off walking from Idomeni, alone.
(3) January 12, 2016 Shorten hastily responded to that debate on Twitter with a pun-laden non-answer, saying: “Cos you asked … my favourite lettuce is one that doesn’t have a 15 per cent GST on it.” Bill Shorten (@billshortenmp) Cos you asked @workmanalice - my favourite lettuce is one that doesn't have a 15 per cent GST on it.
(4) Amid fears in Downing Street that a traditional trade visit would have looked out of place, as protests sweep across the Arab world, the PM hastily added a six-hour stopover in Cairo, including a walkabout in Tahrir Square.
(5) The announcement comes ahead of two hastily scheduled press conferences by senior officials in the national development and reform commission, which heads China's climate policies, raising expectations that China may soon unveil a target, or set of targets, for easing the country's huge carbon footprint.
(6) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
(7) Rhodes said the Paris talks will be approached differently to Copenhagen, which is widely viewed as a hastily patched-together failure .
(8) Some early concepts, sometimes hastily postulated, are being questioned.
(9) The Coalition wants to scrap this agreement, arguing that it was hastily conceived by vested interests and unfairly locked out local communities and the logging industry.
(10) The commission, however, was hastily wound up in 1948 and quickly forgotten – thanks to the US, which believed the trials were impeding Germany’s rehabilitation.
(11) Professor Steve Field, former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will chair a hastily assembled forum of medical experts that will report by the end of May or the beginning of June.
(12) In response to staff protests in October, Kim led a hastily-arranged “town hall” meeting to listen to concerns, which thousands of employees are thought to have attended, many connecting over the internet in the middle of the night from overseas posts.
(13) Theresa May, who backed remain during the referendum and endorsed a status quo which has been failing working-class communities badly, has enjoyed a boost in the polls because she hastily adopted a series of popular Ukip policies on things such as grammar schools and national security.
(14) The ceasefire, declared on Monday night, had brought a palpable sense of relief and optimism to Gaza, but on Friday streets were deserted once more and any shops that had opened were hastily bring down their shutters.
(15) This is in part due to planned obsolescence – a devious ploy by manufacturers bolstered by marketing strategies to make us fall out of love with a product hastily.
(16) But the high-flying lifestyle of the billionaire Wall Street financier Raj Rajaratnam began to crumble when a hastily typed, barely intelligible instant message popped on to his screen in January 2006.
(17) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
(18) He hastily added that though the speech was being given in the heart of the Arab world, it was aimed not just at Arabs but Muslims throughout the world.
(19) Acknowledging dissent from one table, he hastily added: "Apologies to Fox."
(20) McDermott, ironically, has become something of an ally of Cellino's, despite being sacked by his lawyer by phone in February, then hastily reinstated after an outpouring of support for the manager at the next day's win over Huddersfield.
Nastily
Definition:
(adv.) In a nasty manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colorado’s MLS rookie of the year candidate, Dillon Powers, clashed heads nastily with Seattle’s Zach Scott and has been out since with concussion symptoms.
(2) In 2007, when Disney’s High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens was the victim of a nude photo leak, the then-18 year-old issued an ashamed and repentant statement , and a Disney Channel spokesperson called the pictures a “lapse in judgement” and added nastily, “We hope she’s learned a valuable lesson.” (Not to work for Disney, maybe?)
(3) Richie Myler, the England scrum-half who was returning after six weeks out with a knee problem, was a key figure in both, combining with Chris Bridge to lay on a second for Monaghan before his clever kick into Huddersfield's in-goal area bounced nastily for Leroy Cudjoe, allowing Simon Grix to touch down for his first.
(4) At a point when the case for independence – in the context of plummeting oil prices, and Scottish government deficit – was looking distinctly headachey, Tory xenophobia has been a gift for Sturgeon who is once again able to ramp up the emotional appeal of separating from the nastily populist south.
(5) Brandis defended Heydon in typically florid terms on Thursday: “He has an absolutely stainless reputation for punctilious integrity.” Yet this was the same man who, in what is regarded as his job application speech at a Quadrant dinner for Mary Gaudron’s vacancy, rather nastily attacked Sir Anthony Mason and the high court under his chief justiceship.
(6) Australian football, even in its more enlightened, open-hearted, soberly administered recent past, in which the bog of crappy winter goalmouth scraps between Marconi and Sydney United and the narrow obstinacy of ethnic rivalries has given way to the dawn of passing football, commoditised corporatese, and a fashion for all things Dutch, has carried a nastily thuggish streak.