ricketyadjective
uk/ˈrɪk.ə.ti/us/ˈrɪk.ə.t̬i/in bad condition and therefore weak and likely to break:
Careful! That chair's a bit rickety.
She slowly climbed the rickety wooden steps.
figurative The recession put a lot of strain on an already rickety economic system.
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In bad condition
- battered
- battle-scarred
- be on the skids idiom
- beat up
- blasted
- fleabitten
- have seen better days idiom
- hors de combat
- impair
- in good, bad, etc. repair idiom
- scuff
- shabby
- shattered
- shop-soiled
- shopworn
- worn out
- worse
- worsen
- wrack
- wrecked
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