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Definition of rickety in English: ricketyadjective ˈrɪkɪtiˈrɪkɪdi 1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse. we went carefully up the rickety stairs figurative a rickety banking system Example sentencesExamples - And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction.
- And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators.
- We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
- Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station.
- Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent.
- While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
- You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
- Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
- We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer.
- But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
- She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.
- Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned.
- That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.
- He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
- After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings.
- Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
- Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing.
- Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
- And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated.
- Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
Synonyms shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit informal shambly, geriatric North American informal shacky Australian/New Zealand informal rumpty 2Affected by rickets. poverty was evident in undernourished faces or rickety legs
Derivatives noun Although its technology is state-of-the-art, the impression of ricketiness gives you a real old-time thrill.
Origin Late 17th century: from rickets + -y1. Rickety is based on mid 17th-century rickets, a disease in children due to vitamin D deficiency, causing bow legs, a name with an obscure origin.
Definition of rickety in US English: ricketyadjectiveˈrɪkɪdiˈrikidē 1(of a structure or piece of equipment) poorly made and likely to collapse. we went carefully up the rickety stairs figurative a rickety banking system Example sentencesExamples - We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
- Everyone knew that the stairs were rickety, that everything was old and rotting!
- Likewise, when they compare the high-speed TGV to the rickety transport system we have here, the value of a strong, responsible state becomes apparent.
- And there's a further subtext to Tomb Raider - that rickety Third World technology is no match for the might of imperialist implements of destruction.
- After decades of rickety governments cobbled together from small parties, the 1997 constitution encourages larger and more stable groupings.
- Climbing the rickety wooden stairs we were welcomed into the company of the pipe player, impressive in his traditional costume, his cheeks puffed from the playing of his bagpipes.
- Alternatively, you can always stay at our pension, Na Louzi, which is truly Bohemian, a woody little place with rickety stairs and a dozen styles of ancient door lock and handle.
- He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
- That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.
- You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
- Countless times both of our pagers would go off and we'd tear down the rickety apartment stairs and he'd drive us both to the station.
- We knew that finishing the house would mean living through winter in a rickety, poorly insulated travel trailer.
- Back in Calgary the next day, we scramble across town on the rickety C-train to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology where logistics for the protest are being planned.
- But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
- Meanwhile Tent City, the rickety collection of 50 squatter homes on the waterfront, was cleared away, and residents were offered temporary housing.
- While we were tooling around up at the top of the ancient rickety ski lifts, I just had to check out the winching mechanism for tensioning the lift cables.
- And despite the best efforts of the socialist government, large-scale commercialisation overshadows the country's rickety network of tour operators.
- Rather, poorly lit stairways, rickety bed frames, dirty sex aids and repetitive movement injuries are among the chief dangers brothel workers face in New South Wales.
- And while there is some room for growth in this figure, we can guess that the system is a bit rickety and could be easily overwhelmed if the effort was concentrated.
- She then directed them to the fourth floor, giving them the choice of the stairs or a rickety lift.
Synonyms shaky, unsteady, unsound, unsafe, tottering, crumbling, decaying, disintegrating, tumbledown, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, derelict, ruinous, falling to pieces, decrepit 2(of a person) suffering from rickets.
Origin Late 17th century: from rickets + -y. |