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  • adjective Alternative spelling of rickety.

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Examples

  • Silently Walden followed her through the rooms, saying little in response to her remarks, 'ricketty' or otherwise, and noting all the various changes as he went.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Silently Walden followed her through the rooms, saying little in response to her remarks, 'ricketty' or otherwise, and noting all the various changes as he went.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Silently Walden followed her through the rooms, saying little in response to her remarks, 'ricketty' or otherwise, and noting all the various changes as he went.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • Page 36, unusual spelling of "ricketty" retained. (landed from its ricketty and bespattered bosom)

    Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family Cornelius Mathews 1853

  • The place was of the most ricketty description, and situated in the midst of filthy and pestiferous nuisances.

    James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1 Steve 2009

  • Up a flight of ricketty stairs, the walls dark red and covered with Russian ads and paintings, the atmosphere is smoky although no smoking is allowed any more.

    KGB Bar Reading « Kaaron Warren 2009

  • He preferred to sleep up on the high platform of the abandoned and rather ricketty aboriginal hut there, accessible only by a perpendicular ladder.

    I've never seen a tiger Glenda Larke 2007

  • One, an old stool of the sort that is used to stand a cask of beer on; and the other a great big ricketty straddling old truckle bedstead.

    A House to Let 2007

  • The ricketty roller coaster almost collapses while Doctor Psi mentally dominates Slander, causing him to plunge himself off the top.

    November 10th, 2006 curufea 2006

  • Against the wall stood a ricketty deal press in which he kept his clothes.

    The Claverings 2005

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