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What does rickety mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word rickety? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of an object: not strong or sturdy, as because of poor construction or upkeep; not safe or secure.
  2. Of a person: feeble in the joints; tottering.
  3. Affected with or suffering from rickets.
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He carries three twelve-pack cartons of beer across the yard to the house, climbs the front stairs and walks gingerly across the rickety veranda.
But you did actually go back and ascend this rather rickety structure and made some interesting discoveries.
We head up a rickety flight of stairs, pass through a wooden door, and suddenly my jaw drops open.
It's gutted, with big windows that aren't even boarded up, rickety balconies and a jungle of weeds out front.
He wrestles into position on a rickety picnic bench and glugs from a pint glass of orange squash.
That would put an enormous stress on the rickety structure of Australia's political parties.

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