rickety

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But after this defeat, the fighter who once drove around Leeds in his rickety car trying to sell tickets can leave knowing he gave the sport everything he had.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

And it’s a much more rickety machine than it first appeared.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

The Brewers’ bullpen was suddenly as rickety as the Dodgers’, and that was with Sasaki just spectating.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2025

The furnishings were sparse: a narrow bed, a rickety nightstand, and a secondhand trunk for clothes and books.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray