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rickety

[rik-i-tee] / ˈrɪk ɪ ti /


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The rickety CGI not its strong suit, “Hope” never quite follows through on its crafty first hour of peekaboo velocity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

America’s rickety electric grid is entering the hottest months of the year with a record-setting amount of new power generation—but plenty of problems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

But the 80-kilometre journey on the eastern DRC's infamously rickety and bumpy roads damaged the coffin, exposing the Ebola-ridden corpse to the world.

From Barron's ● May 24, 2026

Just a stone driveway that leads to a side entrance, where a rickety door always gives me trouble.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya

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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