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pokiness

  • a word derived from poky.
    poky
    adjective
    moving or acting slowly or ineffectively; slow; dull.

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By contrast, though I muttered about Koberidze’s pokiness while watching, I couldn’t stop thinking about the movie afterward.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

That pokiness might be highly advantageous in some circumstances but marginally costly in other, less common circumstances?

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2015

The protagonist, by virtue of his pokiness, arrives home after the mother has gone to bed and eats all the rice pudding.

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2015

I have watched seven hours out of the first season's 10, and even as a connoisseur of pokiness, it felt to me that a story, as expressed through character relationships, was slow to form.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2014

The pokiness of the poky house did not trouble me, but its situation was detestable.

From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

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