rickety
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Two searches was all it took for Mom’s rickety tower of lies to come tumbling down.
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Instead, it seemed to go to the bills piling up on the rickety table at the door entrance.
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He’s got his quirks—chains his tea mug to the radiator by his desk, wears a tie for a belt, and rides a rickety bicycle along country lanes while wearing a gas mask.
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We go up a rickety set of stairs and enter a wide room, roughly the same shape and size as the tea shop below.
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He ducked under a couple of long metal pipes being carried by two guys, and then stood aside as someone else made their way over a rickety network of wood planks with a wheelbarrow.
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