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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

Then there are the boats or canoes themselves - generally old, weak, rickety wooden vessels that have often been used for years without upgrades or major repairs.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 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

The country’s rickety electric grid is entering the hottest months of the year with a record-setting amount of new power generation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

It was an age-blacked, dungeonlike building with its own rickety little graveyard in the back, set on a rolling country lane.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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