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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.

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On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rickety, such as: broken, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, flimsy, and ramshackle.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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