creakier; creakiest
1
: marked by creaking : squeaky
creaky shoes
2
: showing signs of deterioration or decrepitude
a creaky old house
a creaky economy
creakily adverb
creakiness noun

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
Recent Examples on the Web In an era where most horror films were still set in creaky old houses and faraway castles, The Seventh Victim moves the action to New York City's Greenwich Village. Katie Rife, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024 The Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church occupies a creaky nineteenth-century sanctuary—and a singular position in the history of the Black freedom struggle. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 His first came for the 2006 film Cinderella Man, a creaky Ron Howard boxing biopic set during the Great Depression, in which Giamatti played the ornery manager Joe Gould. David Sims, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024 Even by operatic standards, the plot devices are creaky. Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024 Good drinks, low ceilings and creaky floors are all constants on this leafy stretch of N Street NW in Dupont Circle. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2024 The house, cluttered and creaky and book-lined, is still in much the state of luxuriously bohemian disarray that his late parents left it, with a tennis court nestled in the sprawling, verdantly overgrown garden. Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2024 Historic and artsy, creaky and classy, Bisbee has evolved into one of Arizona’s coolest towns. Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 11 Jan. 2024 One night in November, a procession of young artists, critics and curators climbed the creaky stairs of a building in Chinatown in Lower Manhattan to attend an opening at a buzzy little gallery, Ulrik. Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of creaky was in 1834

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“Creaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creaky. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

creaky

adjective
creakier; creakiest
: making or likely to make a creaking sound
creakily adverb

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