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- adjective
superlative form ofrickety : mostrickety .
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Examples
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Some others point to a factor also driving up oil prices: All those speculators bailing out of the ricketiest parts of the financial system finding they can do their gambling on commodities.
Peace, order and good government, eh?: June 2008 Archives 2008
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After we picked ourselves up and wiped the heel marks off our backs, we proceeded onwards walking on our three-inch heels up the ricketiest steps I have ever seen, no less and went to the best seats that were left: the last seats in the last row of the theater.
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Vol. I-- Page 120, line 19 ricketiest little buggy that ever a man trusted his life to.
Dr. Wortle's School Anthony Trollope 1848
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No one believes that the filthiest, ricketiest and tardiest subway system on Earth is also the costliest on Earth without having the worst incompetence, laziness and corruption on Earth.
NY Daily News 2010
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All the while there was a certain underlying irony in that we rented our training facility, did most of our indoor work in Portakabins and played in the Premier League's ricketiest stadium.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2010
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All the while there was a certain underlying irony in that we rented our training facility, did most of our indoor work in Portakabins and played in the Premier League's ricketiest stadium.
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All the while there was a certain underlying irony in that we rented our training facility, did most of our indoor work in Portakabins and played in the Premier League's ricketiest stadium.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2010
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No hassle, no questions, no fee just a stamp and I was on my way crossing over the longest and ricketiest wooden bridge that I had come across (sorry couldn't resist the pun).
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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“Well, a big ship, an uncommonly bad sort of railway car, and the ricketiest little buggy that ever a man trusted his life to.
Dr. Wortle's school 2004
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a big wagon came along, drawn by the ricketiest old horse, and a boy in the wagon looking both sides of the road, and into every bush, just as wild as he could be, and before I could think, hardly, he spied us, and if he didn't jump!
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney 1884
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