creakier; creakiest
2
: showing signs of deterioration or decrepitude
a creaky old house
a creaky economy
Examples of creaky in a Sentence
The new governor promises to work to revive the state's creaky economy.
a computer system that is creaky with age
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The crispness of the presentation can be a little creaky, the file is massive, third-person-run animations have latent Naruto energy, and pop-in glitches abound.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2025
The spell cast on the new homeowner of a creaky 1790s farmhouse in Millbrook, New York, was conjured by the steady passage of time.
—Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 5 May 2025
Sure, the narrative is creaky, and its attitudes are not exactly modern.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The Ellis lift, a creaky triple chair that notoriously left skiers stranded for hours, got a mechanical update in 2020, but plans to replace Ellis with a detachable quad haven’t happened yet.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2025
The spell cast on the new homeowner of a creaky 1790s farmhouse in Millbrook, New York, was conjured by the steady passage of time.
—Leilani Marie Labong, Architectural Digest, 5 May 2025
Sure, the narrative is creaky, and its attitudes are not exactly modern.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
The Ellis lift, a creaky triple chair that notoriously left skiers stranded for hours, got a mechanical update in 2020, but plans to replace Ellis with a detachable quad haven’t happened yet.
—Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for creaky
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“Creaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creaky. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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