Definitions

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  • adjective fast, rapid, speedy.

Etymologies

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pace +‎ -y

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Examples

  • "In the last two events we've been as 'pacey' as anyone, so now we just need to turn that into results.

    Motorsport.com: AUSV8SS news 2009

  • "In the last two events we've been as 'pacey' as anyone, so now we just need to turn that into results.

    Motorsport.com: AUSV8SS news 2009

  • Stewart's tempestuous drama does not sugarcoat the failings of her characters and Graham McLaren's pacey production pulls no punches.

    Men Should Weep; The Missing – review 2011

  • My work is so pacey, constantly moving, talking, deciding, trying to come up with ideas so I like to decompress and to have that time to be slow and not have any agenda.

    Alannah Weston Retreats to the Countryside Javier Espinoza 2012

  • Wenger needs to generate momentum and he must do so in a finely balanced Champions League play-off against pacey and threatening Serie A opponents and in hot and clammy conditions.

    Arsène Wenger left with no margin for error in Udinese tie 2011

  • I think boys like pacey stories, yes, they do like pace, but they don't like simple, they don't like to be able to get to the ending too easily.

    Matthew Peterson interviews Eoin Colfer 2010

  • The writing does, however, make for a pacey if remorseless read, and the book has mu ch to teach about a time and a people long shrouded in legend much, apparently, deserved.

    Mongols on the Moskva Allan Mallinson 2011

  • Some great descriptive passages here and full of pacey action.

    HONOR BOUND • by Erin M. Kinch 2009

  • Her journey to an implausibly remote and impenetrable part of Wales, presided over by a strange and dangerous cult, is pacey and exhilarating enough, if a tad formulaic.

    Crime roundup – reviews 2011

  • One ripping yarn wrapped around him was Robert Harris's The Ghost, a pacey thriller in which all manner of twists reveal the many mysteries of power.

    In praise of … Tony Blair | Editorial 2011

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