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straightaway

Speech parts

1. straightaway - Noun

2. straightaway - Adjective

3. straightaway - Adverb

4. straightaway - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening

performed with little or no delay

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Usually one or two things happen: Either you have an idea straightaway - the sort of sound that you want or the instrumentation or one particular sound that you want to feature - or you don't. Anne Dudley

Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go right through to love straightaway. You need to ease your way through. The basis of love is respect, and that needs to be learned from affection and friendship. Peter Ustinov

All persons are puzzles until at last we find some word or act the key to the man, to the woman straightaway all their past words and actions lie in light before us. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure Faith, and at leisure once is he Straightaway he wants to be busy. Robert Browning

Like many people, I was an ardent admirer of Theodore Roosevelt. ...He had recommended to the people Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives. I had read it, and Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address of 1905, and had straightaway felt that the pursuit of social justice would be my vocation. Frances Perkins

he answered immediately Source: Internet

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