summary
The state board summarily rejected her complaint.
He said he was summarily told in February that he was no longer eligible to play.
The board has the power to summarily suspend a physician's license.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not expected or planned
abrupt end
abrupt halt
abruptly
abruptness
ad hoc
inadvertence
inadvertency
inadvertent
inadvertently
inconceivable
sharpness
sine die
spirit
spontaneity
spontaneous
unsuspected
untimely
untoward
unwilled
unwitting

Examples of summarily

summarily
Still, the testimony of such a prominent insider, well acquainted with the singing practices of his time, cannot be summarily dismissed.
I shall now summarily comment on the patch which generates the steps of the appearance of objects.
In the present book, even in 290 pages of the main text, many subjects are dealt with too summarily.
In the first chapter of his dream book he dealt summarily with the dream literature of the nineteenth century.
The nexus between government and party office was broken, and these powers were used summarily just before the 1999 election.
All that we get from here is that they should not summarily reject fragmentation and think twice before recommending consolidation as a universal development agenda.
They are summarily scanned like nouns rather than being sequentially scanned like verbs.
This study does not, at the end of the day, give us reason to summarily dismiss local empowerment and community organisations.
Early modern collectors of herbarii are summarily mentioned as pilgrims for the sake of knowledge who suffered for gaining new insights and collecting new drugs.
For this reason, several possible methods may be summarily dismissed.
The panel also summarily dismissed the violation charges.
In fact, such a scenario is a logical and viable possibility that cannot be summarily dismissed.
But it is significant that the procedure for establishing the will on a question of such momentous import was dealt with so summarily.
He wisely disavows any attempt summarily to verbalize this vision; but his book and, more importantly, his music each takes us capably towards it.
He mentions and summarily describes around 40 birds and 20 kinds of "fish" (actually, animals that live in water).
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