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Briskly vs Hastily - What's the difference?

briskly | hastily |

As adverbs the difference between briskly and hastily

is that briskly is fast, quickly, swiftly while hastily is in a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.

briskly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • fast, quickly, swiftly
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 23 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=As Ferguson strode briskly towards the Stretford End at the final whistle, he will have been reflecting on the extent of the challenge now facing him from the club he once branded "noisy neighbours".}}

    hastily

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Soon, shortly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
    • she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

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