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- adjective Alternative spelling of
pacey .
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Examples
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FWIW, my son had a "pacy" that was a specialty type for preemies.
Deliverance 2007
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Although it's hard to see his cuteness in his short hair, it's his bubbly personality that would turn into serious faces later, even his "pacy" facial expression is believable.
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All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes - Irish crime that is "energetic, pacy and vivid."
Books Maxine 2009
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That day he approached the crease in his characteristically pacy, bouncy yet sleek, light-of-foot fashion—a ninja crossed with a wrecking ball—shoulders low and chest open, purring up through the gears before his high-speed wind-up, prelude to a low-angle slingshot-fling of the ball.
The Paradox of Shoaib Akhtar Richard Lord 2011
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The logic of his self-diagnosed condition was faultless, emotionally gripping, played-downand pacy.
Culture Maxine 2009
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All the Dead Voices by Declan Hughes - Irish crime that is "energetic, pacy and vivid."
PETRONA Maxine 2009
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But when Gloucestershire began their pursuit of a target of seven runs an over, they were soon in trouble against the pacy spin of Afridi.
Shahid Afridi shows Hampshire what he can do with five-wicket blitz 2011
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Writer Robert Popper's now-established comic rhythm is pacy and fresh in a way you wouldn't expect of a family sitcom.
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Real successfully closed down Barça's creative midfielders and pacy forwards and had much the better of the first half before Pepe crashed a header off the post in the 44th minute with the goalkeeper José Manuel Pinto well beaten.
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City of Fear is a tight, pacy police procedural, in which three Indiana college girls hit New York for their spring break.
February 2009 Maxine 2009
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