rickety
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Eventually, his friend Reggie Manuel persuaded him to attend, even giving him a lift on his rickety old motorbike.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Eventually, one too many social gaffes have stacked up into a rickety pile, and Joe can’t help but play the Big Bad Wolf.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
On Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei once again called for policymakers to "activate a slow and rickety policy apparatus to deal with risks and opportunities that are going to compound surprisingly quickly from here."
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
In November 1832, eight survivors of the sunken American whaleship Mentor set out into the Pacific Ocean in a pair of rickety boats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Instead, it seemed to go to the bills piling up on the rickety table at the door entrance.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
The evening’s ricketier segments involved Ms. LuPone and Mr. Patinkin’s headlong dive into the emotional thickets of two classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals: “South Pacific” and “Carousel.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2011
Well, a big ship, an uncommonly bad sort of railway car, and the ricketiest little buggy that ever a man trusted his life to.
From Dr. Wortle's School by Anthony Trollope
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