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Meanings of rickety in English
Synonyms
Examples for "weak"
Examples for "weak"
1
Rising labour costs and weak demand remained key factors constraining companies' growth.
2
Good news, since the results come during the firm's weak summer months.
3
Thousands of serious crimes have gone unpunished by Mexico's weak justice system.
4
That's partly because the weak housing market means few new construction jobs.
5
Yet threats of retaliation underscore the weak legal case of opposed countries.
1
Most of Europe suffers from record low investment and feeble productivity growth.
2
In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force.
3
Now, with the aid of feeble though welcome light, his courage grew.
4
The story that the candle had expired seemed feeble in the extreme.
5
It would be better to enter alone; he must not appear feeble.
1
However, CGWS has been demonstrated so far only in weakly scattering samples.
2
The MPC said the economy appeared to be growing again, albeit weakly.
3
Norine seated herself weakly; she stared in bewilderment at the unhappy speaker.
4
I smiled weakly and answered no, but yes, yes, something was wrong.
5
George smiled weakly, still not quite back into the world of words.
1
Tens of thousands of children enter Russia's decrepit orphanage system every year.
2
The decrepit regime Syria's president heads is getting really good at repression.
3
The second house was a converted detached garage in back, equally decrepit.
4
Its location in the middle of Dublin 4 belied its decrepit state.
5
Family after family arrives, each claiming a decrepit ancestor amid high-decibel greetings.
1
There is a moral issue involved in refusing care to the infirm.
2
The camp was deserted of all except the infirm and very aged.
3
Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you: and many sleep.
4
The mind is too infirm to be entirely occupied with higher knowledge.
5
Aged and infirm as Opechancanough was, the wound was not instantly mortal.
1
The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.
2
The carcass becomes a sapless mummy, a mere bit of leather.
3
Adversity has shaken them all like dead leaves from sapless branches.
4
They could never have made his sapless nature break into leafage.
5
They chew hungrily at the sapless fibre of the dead reed-stalks.
1
Too weak and faltering to be febrile, Chopin is here a debile, prematurely exhausted young man.
2
The family magazine of the literary order has been debile, so radical critics charge, since its journalistic offspring began to sweep America.
3
A little priest came in, a man scarcely thirty years of age, but thin and debile of build, with a long, seared, saffron-coloured face.
Usage of rickety in English
1
It has the potential to completely undermine an already rickety democratic process.
2
A Florida cracker family, in a rickety wagon, stopped to help them.
3
And the rickety gig rattled merrily off in search of broken bones.
4
He has great arguments but built the most rickety of bully pulpits.
5
The room at the foot of the rickety, patched stairs was empty.
6
There they found the small rickety gate Cat had come in by.
7
The night was impenetrably dark and the chaise more than ordinarily rickety.
8
He was surprised a high wind hadn't already toppled the rickety structure.
9
The three also allegedly took payments for packing migrants onto rickety boats.
10
I flatten the sheet against the table and read the rickety letters.
11
Many tunnels and rickety ladders later, he was within the stonewalled catacombs.
12
Three wooden stairs lead to a small porch covered with rickety chairs.
13
Two rickety chairs went with the rickety table, one on each side.
14
Then she went down the rickety stairs, out to the waiting cab.
15
I now had one rickety table between me and a premature funeral.
16
Catherine held a rickety rail and climbed slowly to the next floor.
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Rickety through the time
Rickety across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common