rickety
adjective /ˈrɪk.ɪ.ti/
/-ə.t̬i/ Definition
› 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.In bad conditionFragile and breakable
(Definition of rickety adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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