adjective

definition

Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.

example

He hesitated about climbing such a small, rickety ladder.

definition

Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.

example

The rickety old man hardly managed to climb the stairs.

definition

Affected with or suffering from rickets.

Examples of rickety in a Sentence

Martha's voice dropped to a whisper as she pointed to a rickety staircase.

He was ungainly, with rickety legs.

But a rickety wooden thing like you has no right to be alive.

Most large predators could never accomplish the climb up a rickety tree, but cats are naturally strong and agile.

Born at Honfleur he was cabinboy for a while on board the rickety steamer that plied between Havre and Honfleur across the estuary of the Seine.

Eventually we were led up some rickety stairs to a portakabin aloft the studio proper.

I 'm writing this from the rickety old cart which is now heading north.

Teaching & Projects Abroad is based in the bustling city of Kathmandu full of jostling crowds, rickety bullock carts and noisy auto-rickshaws.

Access to these was often only by way of a rickety rope bridge across a ravine.

Then they toasted crumpets on a rickety fork, sitting side by side, feet in the hearth, without speaking.

Do you dream yet on your old rickety sofa in the dear old ghastly bankrupt garret at No. 66?

The only method of boarding the boat below the lock was a rather rickety ladder attached to the left hand wing wall.

Very nice little place, and we were seated toward the back on a slightly rickety table for two.

She may pass the next without being dashed to pieces, but she is too rickety to stand the third.

We were approaching a very rickety part of the bridge.

The stable looked rickety, it smelled of animals and had fragile doors and windows.

I just managed to keep him in sight as he deftly vaulted the rickety wooden fence at the back of the house.

Having climbed the rickety wooden stairs, three men guided us into the thick, deep mud.

On inspecting under the bridge, I was amazed to discover that there was a rickety old wooden staircase was still in place !

I followed about twenty lost souls up a rickety flight of stairs to a brightly lighted room, smelling of flowers and candles.

The psychopathic, the tubercular, the rickety, and the gouty constitution may all be transmitted through a line of ascendants, and only require the necessary exciting agents to render them apparent.

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