Entry:
headlong
Synonyms:quickly, fast, rapid, hasty, hurried, speedily, in a flash/like a flash/quick as a flash, like a shot, frenetic, in the twinkling of an eye, shallow, foolish, mindless, impulsive, unthinking, impetuous, ill-considered, undiscriminating, hasty, automatically
If you are looking to be somewhat novel with language — cf. etymology of ‘suspicious’ anywhere but Wiktionary, where it is seriously deficient, — then you could consider
cap
In most dialects which I've encountered, a ‘cap’ is any style of shallow hat. Most etymological histories surmise a derivation from various words which are paronymic with the Latin ‘caput’ i.e. ‘head’.
Viz. e.g.
the cap of your head.
If your story occurs in the future, it may be a good way to suggest mutation of language while not being all too indecipherable.
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- calculated
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- considered
- deliberate
- planned
- practiced
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START THE QUIZOnly in the carnage of the head, the tilt of the chin, was the insolence expressed that had made her many enemies.
He came to the top of the stairs with a lamp in his hand, and wanted to know what the rumpus was about.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. [GEORGE WASHINGTON] OGDENShe sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
THE HOMESTEADEROSCAR MICHEAUXA fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
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