pokiness
- a word derived from poky.
Example Sentences
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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
He must have some very strong reason for this, to leave his big comfortable flat for the pokiness of the Markovitches'!
From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir
