Forward and Poking

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Forward adjective - Showing a lack of proper social reserve or modesty.

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Poking and forward are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Poking" instead an adjective "Forward".

Poking adjective - Moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed.

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Forward and poking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Forward" instead an adjective "Poking".

Nearby Words: poke, poked

This production company was made and helped to bring forward a new series of Mormon-based films, most of them comedies poking fun at the cultural quirks of the church.

Source: Mormon Cinema
As can largely be expected, it consists of Gene leaning forward, poking the hellspawn with his index finger, the enemy disintegrating as they normally do when they die, capping it off with a Laugh Track while Gene showboats.

Source: Video Game / God Hand
In the Firefly fanfic Forward, Kaylee actually uses technobabble to scare off a group of suspicious federal marshals who are poking around the ship's engine room, by warning them that poking or moving anything will result in a horrific death via painful-sounding technobabble.

Source: Techno Babble

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