rackety
Americanadjective
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noisy, rowdy, or boisterous
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socially lively and, sometimes, mildly dissolute
a rackety life
Etymology
Origin of rackety
Example Sentences
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If her childhood was dysfunctional, her early adult life, as recounted in Auto da Fay, was equally rackety.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2023
Eshun still sets off before dawn each morning to deliver fresh bread to faithful customers from a rackety delivery van held together with pins and wire.
From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2022
A short-story master resurrects his rackety Edwardian childhood.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2022
A lampoon founded in 1986, Spy immediately took its place within ’80s New York, a city giving itself over to the rackety energies of the vulgar and profane.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2020
The time crowded together and at an End of Days I was swinging on the back of the rackety trolley, smiling sweetly and persuading my charges to “step forward in the car, please.”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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