rickety
Use Rickety in a sentence
ɪ adjective, rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est.
1.
likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair.
2.
feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm: a rickety old man.
3.
old, dilapidated, or in disrepair.
4.
irregular, as motion or action.
5.
affected with or suffering from rickets.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —adj | |
| 1. | (of a structure, piece of furniture, etc) likely to collapse or break; shaky |
| 2. | feeble with age or illness; infirm |
| 3. | relating to, resembling, or afflicted with rickets |
| [C17: from | |
| 'ricketiness | |
| —n | |
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Example sentences
They came by ferry rather than rickety steamer, and on the top deck rather than in steerage.
Happily, it can be noted that this rickety saga does not interfere too greatly with the important matters at hand.
But out across a rickety-looking wood plank jetty, there's a new beer hall that is attracting a different kind of customer.
The rickety feel of century-old coasters meets the foot- dangling precariousness of inverted coasters.
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