Immediately their front legs entered the region of the vapour the ticks precipitately retired and without exception avoided it.
If some of the contractors feel he acted too precipitately, then they have their civil court rights.
His star was in the ascendant, but now it has descended very precipitately below the horizon.
Then came decontrol, much too precipitately and without adequate notice.
I would add that indiscretion is the greater part of squalor, and we should be immensely careful not to act precipitately.
All that sense of a latent, indefinable strength in the background is precipitately and incontinently swept away.
There would also be the inevitable tendency for a certain type of motorist to pull away precipitately and without adequate warning from a parked position.
Criticisms were made today about acting precipitately—acting too quickly or too slowly are both accusations that have been made over the past few weeks.
