What's the difference between hasty and madcap?

Hasty


Definition:

  • (n.) Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
  • (n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.
  • (n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
  • (n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
  • (n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
  • (n.) Forward; early; first ripe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aim of this report is a stress of over-hasty classification to the surgical treatment of goiter diagnosed as hyperactive.
  • (2) On Saturday an idle digg ing machine signalled the hasty clearing of the building site to make way for the refugees, who have fled from countries including Syria and Eritrea .
  • (3) These will prepare you to stand your ground or beat a hasty retreat, depending on the threat.
  • (4) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (5) Thus, we should not be too hasty in our extrapolations of data, even among closely related species.
  • (6) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
  • (7) After saying his piece, Hastie handed over to Howard, who had earlier qualified that he was just there to “make up the number”.
  • (8) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
  • (9) Therefore, it is prudent to avoid making hasty purchasing decisions to accomplish a quick-fix solution to managing quality assurance activities.
  • (10) Serious public opposition to practices such as fracking and tar sands extraction, as well as the building of major pipelines has lead to a hasty surge in the transport of oil by freight.
  • (11) Rubbishing Hastie is not Keogh’s style, though Guardian Australia understands the story did originate from people within the Labor party .
  • (12) conclude that with the development of less traumatic methods of tubal occlusion there is no longer any justification for a hasty decision to sterilize at the time of operative delivery or gynecological surgery, simply to "avoid another operation."
  • (13) The author underline that over hasty neoplasm diagnosis always exerts an unjustified and destructive psychologic influence on patient and his family.
  • (14) But we all know that Andrew Hastie will have to defend all of the same captain’s picks as the rest of Tony Abbott’s team will have to defend.” But Plibersek stopped short of criticising Hastie’s military record, declining to comment on reports that he had been linked to a second matter that had been subject to investigation by the Australian defence force, this one involving the accidental killing of two Afghan boys by a US helicopter crew who were in contact with Hastie’s ground unit.
  • (15) The rapidity with which technology has perpetuated ethical issues within the clinical setting has often lead to hasty and arbitrary decision-making.
  • (16) Last month it was reported a member of a unit commanded by Hastie in Afghanistan had cut off the hands of a dead insurgent to secure his fingerprints.
  • (17) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (18) I care about the direction of Australia,” Hastie said.
  • (19) Bill Shorten says Canning byelection is a chance to tell Abbott 'enough is enough' Read more The 2013 incident in Afghanistan was carried out by one or more soldiers under the command of then Captain Andrew Hastie who is standing for the West Australian seat of Canning, Fairfax Media reported on Saturday.
  • (20) – and, secondly, swears she will not make any hasty 'shoot-me-if-you-see-me-in-a-boat' pronouncements about her future.

Madcap


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
  • (a.) Wild; reckless.
  • (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Inspired by chaos, Floyd would address the crew as often as the camera, would get palpably squiffy as programmes wore on, would indulge in any manner of derring-do (from playing rugby with Welshmen to shooting seals and eating puffins) and would be lovably madcap.
  • (2) This madcap scheme is completely contrary to Medicare,” Abbott said at the time .
  • (3) Like American Hustle, another madcap 70s period piece which it somewhat resembles, it could be a shoo-in for major awards come 2015.
  • (4) For all that, the Help to Buy scheme vividly demonstrates the madcap world of British housing finance.
  • (5) He soon transferred to presenting and built up a reputation for a madcap approach that was somewhat constrained by BBC management.
  • (6) This is not a document full of whizzy graphics and madcap ideas.
  • (7) The government should pull the plug on these madcap 'offsetting' plans and get on with delivering its commitments to protect and boost wildlife through better planning."
  • (8) Even if you hate me, please don’t take Labour over the cliff edge | Tony Blair Read more Such is the public indifference to events beyond Britain’s borders that a politician can hold almost any madcap belief on foreign affairs and get away with it.
  • (9) Whether it’s the slapstick drag of Mrs Doubtfire, the frenetic voice of the Genie, or the thorax shaking screams from Good Morning, Vietnam there is so much comedy that we don’t need to remember the madcap exec who was Sarah Michelle Gellar’s father.
  • (10) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
  • (11) Near the Clignancourt flea market in northern Paris, it offers a madcap mix of DIY workshops, €12 dinners on global themes, screenings and cocktails beside the old train tracks.
  • (12) Nothing went our way, but now we have to raise our heads because life goes on.” “It was unbelievable, and incredible things happened which we will be unable to explain for the rest of our lives,” said Manchester City’s Fernandinho, a member of the two-man midfield that had been so horribly outnumbered and overrun during that madcap first period.
  • (13) So maybe it is appropriate that the madcap black crime comedy American Hustle has emerged as the big winner of the Globes with its three awards: for best comedy or musical, and best actress and best supporting actress (comedy or musical) for Amy Adams and the all-conquering Jennifer Lawrence.
  • (14) At the photo shoot for this piece she gamely tries on outfit after outfit of streetwear, looking like a small but ferocious superhero, the type of no-nonsense heroine who’s as at home with a snappy retort as a swift roundhouse kick, and the perfect companion for Capaldi’s madcap incarnation of the Doctor.
  • (15) In the opera categories the English National Opera won best new opera production for Handel's Partenope, the madcap cross-dressing comedy of errors transposed from ancient Naples to the roaring 20s.
  • (16) Meanwhile Lord Adonis has called for the House of Lords to be moved "up north" , presumably to give custom to his other madcap idea, that £50bn be spent on HS2 .
  • (17) Weis also discusses whether, in their “madcap twenties”, Shakespeare and the more overtly gay Christopher Marlowe had an affair.
  • (18) Some competitors had travelled from Spain, Canada, Japan and the Netherlands to take part in the series of madcap races.
  • (19) The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
  • (20) However, Bolton, despite losing their past five away league matches, arrived intent on attacking rather than containing and that made for an open, madcap contest.

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