creaky
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The train system is "old and creaky and it's outdated," he admitted.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Those fell to the country’s creaky court system, where authorities have found numerous cases of corruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
It's not just at the airport that the transport network is creaky.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
The most creaky veteran played with the most aggression.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2026
For inside it is quiet, except for the rustling clothing of a few old women down on their creaky old knees.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
As a mover, Springsteen was maybe a little creakier than in the other shows I’ve caught over the last decade, at least until he came across that dog in his path during “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
Morgan always designed his drama to be a "love letter" to the recently departed monarch, and it plays as such, even in these creakier new episodes.
From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2022
In recent years, Roethlisberger often has recovered after horrendous games, but those horrendous games have grown more common, and his performances have grown creakier.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2021
“T2 Trainspotting,” to use its perplexing title, is slower and creakier than “Trainspotting.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2017
Like many people, I suspect, I for years held my own ideas about how Swift ought to mature, based on a creakier notion of “quality songwriting” than her industry-savvy one.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2014
A soft yet supportive backrest that is kind to even the creakiest back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023
He was driving the creakiest, oldest and smallest Hyundai that I'd ever seen.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2018
But Wan has a gift for investing even the creakiest cliches with shivery élan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2016
In 1936, Hollywood staged one of its earliest – and creakiest – onscreen apocalypses in San Francisco, a melodrama about the city-leveling 1906 earthquake.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2015
I lead the way, pointing to the creakiest steps so Fina will know to skip them.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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