Sample Sentences for
impetuous
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impetuous as in:  an impetuous decision

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    To say we were rotten little children would be like saying John Brown was a little on the impetuous side,  (source)
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    But Atlanta was ... as headstrong and impetuous as herself.  (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
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    Her impetuous act might prove the death-signal of the man she would have died to save.  (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
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    Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself to speak, she...  (source)
    impetuous = impulsive
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    ...he demanded impetuously.  (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (without much thought)
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    "I could explain—no I couldn't, either," said Henry, as the ramifications of his impetuosity sank in.  (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness (acting suddenly without much thought)
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    All agreed that the most important thing was to manage the impetuousness of the youngsters, for armed resistance would likely lead to a slaughter, and nonviolence was surely their most potent response, shaming their attackers into civility.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.  (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (made without much thought)
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    He felt an urgent desire to be alone with her again soon and sprang up impetuously from his table and went running outside and back down the street toward...  (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
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    She looked at him with a sudden impetuosity.  (source)
    impetuosity = impulsiveness
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    Or, driven to anger, she would fight with a ferocity and impetuousness that disregarded or forgot any danger; superior strength, numbers, or other unfavourable circumstances.†  (source)
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    He is, in fact, but for his years and size, rather like a very impetuous baby "taking notice" eagerly and loudly, and requiring almost as much watching to keep him out of unintended mischief.  (source)
    impetuous = impulsive (acting suddenly without much thought)
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    In a lake of reeds, he saw the pike hungrily hunting for its dinner; ... young fish jumped in droves out of the water; ... which the pike stirred up, impetuously hunting.  (source)
    impetuously = impulsively (acting suddenly without much thought)
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