rickety

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rick·ety | \ ˈri-kə-tē

Definition of rickety

1 : affected with rickets

2a : lacking stability or firmness : shaky sense 2a a rickety coalition

b : in unsound physical condition rickety veterans rickety stairs

Examples of rickety in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Olga Lidia Lahera lives with her daughter and two granddaughters in a tiny 15-square-meter (160-square-foot) apartment with peeling plaster walls that has barely enough room for a shelf with pots and a rickety sofa bed. — Andrea RodrÍguez, ajc, 22 June 2022 But the market has turned into a rickety amusement park ride of stomach quaking 1,000-point drops and losses after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February and inflationary pressures kept building. — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2022 Stocks are way down, real estate is trapped on a rickety bridge, between slower demand and higher lending rates. — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 10 June 2022 None of a dozen or so anglers fishing alongside Schroeder and his rickety white plastic lawn chair catch any. — Matt Tunseth For The Daily News, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2022 The beach has been closed since 2020 following a deadly record of drownings and has had a rickety fence sectioning off the beach from the walkway near the edge of McKinley. — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2022 Ringing the stadium are vendors in rickety wooden stalls who do a lively trade in black-and-red scarfs, hats, shirts and wristbands stamped Atlas campeón, some with the dates 1951-2021. — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022 One family walked on a rickety pathway of boards over a sprawl of sticky black mud in their yard. — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022 My first solo apartment in Queens offered a depressing, glossy white fridge and rickety white range. — Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2022 See More

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rickety

adjective

rick·ety | \ ˈri-kə-tē

Kids Definition of rickety

: in poor condition and likely to break Just below them, hugging the shore, rose a village of thatched huts, with a small, rickety pier, boats on the sand, and nets spread for mending.— Lloyd Alexander, Time Cat

rickety

adjective

rick·ety | \ ˈrik-ət-ē