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rickety
adjective as in unsound, broken-down
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And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.
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But her conceit that the Inter-Con’s trajectory can constitute, as the book’s subtitle asserts, “a people’s history of Afghanistan,” is rickety at best.
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The stairs leading to the door are uneven and rickety, feeding into a porch that has six wicker chairs—five upright, and one kicked over.
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Alas, the wagon was a rickety wooden affair.
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The rickety cage creaked slowly up—and stopped between two floors.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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