rickety
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He writes, for example, that the guitarist James Blood Ulmer plays “shrill, disjointed fragments, nervous bits and rickety pieces tied together by a staggered but wryly swinging thematic sensibility.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025
Elsewhere, it was the Alan Carr show again, as the comedian walked along a rickety bridge over a river during the latest challenge, shrieking as he did so.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2025
They slept in rickety shacks, used communal bathrooms and showered in water that “was a very nice shade of brown,” Carter remembered with a laugh.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
As they moved toward school, the houses became bolder, sprouting second stories that stood uneasily in their rickety wooden frames.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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