rickety
Origin of rickety
Synonyms for rickety
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dilapidated, shaky, decrepit, broken, flimsy, wobbly, ramshackle, derelict, feeble, fragile, frail, imperfect, infirm, insecure, jerry-built, precarious, rattletrap, rocky, unsteady, waveringExamples from the Web for rickety
Contemporary Examples of rickety
She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in IraqNathan Bradley Bethea
August 31, 2014
There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.
Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.
"Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible.
The Stacks: The Neville Brothers Stake Their Claim as Bards of the BayouJohn Ed Bradley
April 27, 2014
We were staying in this cool, rickety, haunted hotel on Lake Michigan and just had an amazing time.
Historical Examples of rickety
He lit a candle, and went cautiously down the rickety staircase.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
There was a thud as his fist hit the rickety, squeaking table in the center of the room.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
I perceive the altar to be rickety and the Commandments damp.
The Uncommercial TravellerCharles Dickens
Another, a third, and a fourth gust rattled and shook the rickety frame.
Wilfrid CumbermedeGeorge MacDonald
Under the washshed, which adjoined the kitchen, was a rickety door.
Thankful's InheritanceJoseph C. Lincoln
rickety
- (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) likely to collapse or break; shaky
- feeble with age or illness; infirm
- relating to, resembling, or afflicted with rickets