Thesaurus / rickety
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They were called “boat people,” crowding into rickety vessels, fleeing relentless poverty and the dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier.
BORDER REPORT: HAITIAN MIGRANTS CONTINUE TRICKLING INTO TIJUANA, BUT WILL THEY STAY?SANDRA DIBBLEOCTOBER 18, 2021VOICE OF SAN DIEGOIt’s also hilarious that this attempt at stabilizing its rickety notions of amateurism will force schools to become even more like businesses.
NCAA’S TRANSFER CHANGES ARE GOOD FOR ATHLETES AND CHALLENGING FOR COACHES. SEEMS FAIR.JERRY BREWERAPRIL 16, 2021WASHINGTON POSTFrom rickety old strap-on blades to state-of-the-art high-performance skates, the range of options fits, and purposes are pretty vast.
BEST ICE SKATES: STAY COMFORTABLE AND IN CONTROL ON THE ICEPOPSCI COMMERCE TEAMMARCH 4, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe pioneers, rolling in rickety wagons across the prairie with all of their earthly possessions, headed for a better life.
NOMADLAND TURNS AMERICAN ICONOGRAPHY INSIDE OUTALISSA WILKINSONFEBRUARY 19, 2021VOXThe rickety elevator was a bit scary, making the tiny top floor apartment in Rome’s Monti neighborhood more of a sixth-floor walkup.
WHY AIRBNB IS GREAT FOR WALL STREET, BUT NOT SO GREAT FOR EVERYONE ELSEAARON PRESSMANDECEMBER 11, 2020FORTUNEIn the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTSo saying the lively urchin grasped his new friend by the hand and led him by a rickety staircase to the “rookeries” above.
THE GARRET AND THE GARDENR.M. BALLANTYNEThis problem was solved by a native coming along driving a raw-boned horse before a rickety wagon.
THE COURIER OF THE OZARKSBYRON A. DUNNHe could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.
THE BOX-CAR CHILDRENGERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNEROn one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.
DOPESAX ROHMERWORDS RELATED TO RICKETY
- all skin and bones
- angular
- attenuate
- attenuated
- beanpole
- beanstalk
- bony
- cadaverous
- delicate
- emaciated
- ethereal
- featherweight
- fleshless
- fragile
- gangling
- gangly
- gaunt
- haggard
- lank
- lanky
- lean
- lightweight
- meager
- narrow
- peaked
- pinched
- pole
- puny
- rangy
- rarefied
- rawboned
- reedy
- rickety
- scraggy
- scrawny
- shadow
- shriveled
- skeletal
- skinny
- slender
- slight
- slim
- slinky
- small
- spare
- spindly
- stalky
- starved
- stick
- stilt
- subtle
- thin as a rail
- threadlike
- twiglike
- undernourished
- underweight
- wan
- wasted
- weedy
- wizened
- ailing
- crazed
- dangerous
- decrepit
- defective
- delicate
- demented
- deranged
- diseased
- erroneous
- fallacious
- false
- faulty
- flawed
- fragile
- frail
- ill
- illogical
- in poor health
- inaccurate
- incongruous
- incorrect
- infirm
- insane
- insecure
- insubstantial
- invalid
- lunatic
- mad
- not solid
- rickety
- shaky
- specious
- tottering
- unbacked
- unbalanced
- unhealthy
- unhinged
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unstable
- unsteady
- unsubstantial
- unwell
- weak
- wobbly
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
- ambiguous
- borderline
- capricious
- changeable
- dizzy
- dubious
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- insecure
- irrational
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- precarious
- rickety
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- shifty
- slippery
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- volatile
- wavering
- weak
- weaving
- wiggly
- wobbly
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