Definitionadj. inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
Last update: June 19, 2015
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The house has a rickety wooden gate. [adjective]
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Teaching & Projects Abroad is based in the bustling city of Kathmandu full of jostling crowds, rickety bullock carts and noisy auto-rickshaws. [adjective]
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However in some countries transporting a large flail machine over rickety bridges is impossible so the solutions have to be appropriate. [adjective]
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If even a smart breeze from the west sprang up, his rickety little craft, intended only for inland navigation, would have small chance of living through the tumult. [adjective]
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In this arch there was no door; but a black step-ladder (made of oak, no doubt), very steep and rather rickety, was planted to tempt any venturesome foot. [adjective]
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Captain Salt led the way indoors and up a rickety staircase to the right, on the first landing of which they found two pages in waiting. [adjective]
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To read the inscriptions I climbed the rickety fence; the grass was high, the weeds thick; the entire place showed signs of neglect and decay. [adjective]
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"Uncle" lifted Natasha off her horse and taking her hand led her up the rickety wooden steps of the porch. [adjective]
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But a rickety wooden thing like you has no right to be alive. [Please select]
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Many of the buildings have been pulled down, and those that remain are very rickety-looking affairs. [Please select]
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Adolph left the room and noiselessly went down a rickety flight of stairs. [Please select]
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