View synonyms for fleet-footed

fleet-footed

[ fleet-foot-id ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1585–95

Or that “if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

Parties of gentlemen on horseback, with their pack of hounds, hunt the fleet-footed deer.

They are beautiful animals, strong and fleet-footed, but often savage with anyone but their master.

The marines, led by their sergeant, charged after them till the greater number of the fleet-footed savages had disappeared.

Need we say that this is the Scottish Earl, the father of our fleet-footed thralls, and that the dark-haired girl is Emma?

In the darkness, on the steep and ragged descent the fleet-footed savages could almost keep pace with the horse.

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