adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a rickety bamboo fence
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The staircase was old and rickety .
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They sat around the card table on rickety old chairs.
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We climbed up two flights of rickety wooden stairs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blur of rickety shops does heavy business seven days a week.
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And despite the rickety infrastructure, computer networks are growing fast.
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In the early 1970s, Ford introduced a rickety compact called the Maverick.
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It evokes a precarious world which is so rickety that it may, at any time, collapse.
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It was a rather rickety affair that creaked embarrassingly when I sat down in it and ever after when I moved.
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On icy winter mornings, they bathe in foot tubs before the open flame of a rickety gas heater.
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Suddenly, borne across the bridge on the muddy tide, came a rickety wooden construction like a toolshed.
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They rode in the rickety wagon across the prairie until they reached a railroad track.