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rickety

/rik-i-tee/US // ˈrɪk ɪ ti //UK // (ˈrɪkɪtɪ) //

颤颤巍巍,佝偻病,摇摇欲坠,颤颤巍巍的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est.

    • : likely to fall or collapse; shaky: a rickety chair.
    • : feeble in the joints; tottering; infirm: a rickety old man.
    • : old, dilapidated, or in disrepair.
    • : irregular, as motion or action.
    • : affected with or having rickets.
    • : relating to or of the nature of rickets.

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Examples

  • It’s also hilarious that this attempt at stabilizing its rickety notions of amateurism will force schools to become even more like businesses.

  • From rickety old strap-on blades to state-of-the-art high-performance skates, the range of options fits, and purposes are pretty vast.

  • The pioneers, rolling in rickety wagons across the prairie with all of their earthly possessions, headed for a better life.

  • The rickety elevator was a bit scary, making the tiny top floor apartment in Rome’s Monti neighborhood more of a sixth-floor walkup.

  • She looks at you and then points to a rickety wooden boat about twenty-five meters from where you stand.

  • There were taxis, called “hackneys,” which were rickety stagecoaches cast off by the rich and repurposed as transport for hire.

  • Ray gave Jay a shell, then stepped onto a small, rickety carousel in the comer of the churchyard and loaded up.

  • The going rate for life jackets on board the dangerously rickety vessels tops $200, whether for men, women or children.

  • "Yeah, all right," he mutters, then follows his brothers out of the room, down a rickety flight of stairs and into the crucible.

  • In the aperture of the window, amid piles of paper, stood a rickety old table, covered with dust.

  • So saying the lively urchin grasped his new friend by the hand and led him by a rickety staircase to the “rookeries” above.

  • This problem was solved by a native coming along driving a raw-boned horse before a rickety wagon.

  • He could hardly walk up the rickety front steps of the old tumble-down house, and his thirteen-year-old son had to help him.

  • On one side loomed a huge tank, to the brink of which a rickety wooden ladder invited the explorer to ascend.