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pokingly

Adverb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. So as to poke out or protrude.
  2. In a drudging, servile manner.
    dated

Examples

“GMW Wemyss, Markham Shaw Pyle, The Transatlantic Disputations: Essays and Meditations […] the 1975 InterCity poster consisting simply of a Page Three girl, wearing a shirt and a hat and nothing else, bra-less (and this is clamantly, pokingly evident) […]”
“We arose when the first streak of grey light⟳ appeared in the east, and, without stopping to prepare⟳ our breakfast, we resumed our toilsome march⟳. The poor starved and thirsty mules plodded pokingly along, in rather a doleful plight.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

polarily polarimetrically polariscopically polarly polarographically polarward

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