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  • adjective comparative form of poky: more poky

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Examples

  • Verizon hasn't jacked up the monthly data fees, continuing to offer the same unlimited $30 monthly data plan for this 4G phone that it does for, say, its pokier 3G iPhone.

    Verizon's ThunderBolt Moves Like Lightning Walter S. Mossberg 2011

  • This involved putting as much of the index as possible in actual computer memory as opposed to the pokier, less reliable hard disk drives.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • This involved putting as much of the index as possible in actual computer memory as opposed to the pokier, less reliable hard disk drives.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • When I tested it at a hotel with slow Wi-Fi, the Prime was notably pokier at streaming the same YouTube video as an iPad 2 using Verizon's 3G cellular network.

    Solid Keyboard Elevates This Tablet, Though Software Lags Walter S. Mossberg 2011

  • Watching his long overdue speech on healthcare tonight, I think maybe it's a race between the two of us to see who is the pokier.

    Obama Tries On The Uniform 2009

  • Cold weather states, for example, are rushing along mightily, while those short-winter states like Florida are being a pit pokier about breaking ground.

    ProPublica's Reporting Network Spot-Checks First Wave of Stimulus Construction Scola, Nancy 2009

  • The passage was so narrow that two people were a tight fit in it; and, were more than two in waiting, they had to be furnished with seats in the little parlour to the back, pokier, this, than even the surgery, and very dark — Richard called it the

    The Way Home 2003

  • There's a reason today is pokier than life on an artisanal goat-cheese farm.

    Eight Day Week 2001

  • There's a reason today is pokier than life on an artisanal goat-cheese farm.

    Eight Day Week 2001

  • Naturally, he told himself, the pokier commercial craft would be nowhere near as luxurious as the shuttle carried by Malaika's yacht, the Gloryhole.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

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