(a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
(2) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
(3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(4) My Year Off became my rickety bridge back to the everyday world, in which I was relearning a way of life, guided by Sarah's loving care.
(5) Every morning Mohammed Gurdan rises early and climbs the rickety ladder to the fourth floor of his home in Kashgar's old city.
(6) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
(7) They will face the task of assembling and keeping together a rickety alliance of their own.
(8) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
(9) One of the legacies from those pop art days is her use of brightly coloured household paint, slapped on to bits of wood that are then built into rickety scaffolds.
(10) In the 1980s migrants used to slip through a rickety fence but now it felt like a steel fortress with control towers, cameras and sensors.
(11) Many experts fear that Britain has failed to rebalance its economy over recent years, with the current recovery based on the rickety framework of consumer spending and the housing recovery.
(12) Thousands of migrants have risked their lives in rough winter seas in the last week as they tried to reach Italy from Libya, among them reluctant travellers who were forced into rickety boats at gunpoint.
(13) A business meeting in Tunisia prevented them staying to see Pope Francis celebrate a mass on the island, devoted to the migrants who made the dangerous crossing to southern Europe from Libya in cheap inflatable motorboats and rickety fishing vessels.
(14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
(15) Rickety stairs lead up into black bordello-inspired corridors, while the romantic rooms are individually decorated with flea market furniture, swirling frescoes and erotic photos.
(16) They won’t care that we are Hazara.” Me, Salim*, Hassan and Ali, along with 75 other people, had been lost at sea for four days after our rickety boat’s engine had finally given way.
(17) "The studios are very old and rickety," said Johannah Dyer, the chief executive of independent production company Hotbed Media, which filmed Channel 4 gameshow Win My Wage in ITV's Leeds studios.
(18) And even if he is on song, can Uruguay's average midfield actually get him the ball and can their rickety defence keep England at bay?
(19) A place of 99¢ stores and cathedrals to caffeine; rickety taco stands and gourmet cheese shops; rundown 7-Elevens and pristine organic juice bars; car repair garages and craft stores.
(20) Five years later, in the municipal museum in Venice, Harrington summoned the rickety old lift.
Wonky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(2) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(3) The defender was under no pressure when he ran on to the ball on the edge of his own area, yet he slashed at it in a wild panic – and at a wonky angle – sending the ball spinning past his bewildered goalkeeper.
(4) Maybe any choice of successor – wonky or shrewd – – if, bizarrely, that is thought to be necessary – will set a revised course.
(5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
(6) A topic many had dismissed as boring and wonky has proved more controversial than Janet Jackson’s nipple – the singer’s accidental exposure during the Super Bowl in 2004 triggered a then record 1.4m comments to the FCC.
(7) It sounds boring and wonky, but amounts to a situation in which, as the former Treasury advisor Jonathan Portes wrote last week , “owners of grand and very valuable properties pay little more than those in humbler abodes”.
(8) The speechwriter, Michael Cohen : 'Forget the extraneous wonky arguments of Denver' michael cohen Photograph: Guardian So, after what has been dubbed by the news media as the single most catastrophic, calamitous, Hindenburg-esque debate disaster in American political history, the question for Barack Obama is how does he avoid making the same mistakes again?
(9) This phenotype, which we term 'wonky', is due to hypomyelination in the CNS, and not to involvement of the immune system.
(10) Barmy scale, wonky lines, clashing colours, misspelt words (well, it makes them fit) all put together to create an irresistible command to buy, eat or do everything that the seaside has to offer.
(11) "I see him," says Anne Chisholm, "in a battered dark grey suit, probably from M&S, a striped shirt, collar a bit wonky.
(12) So what else about the wonky way the world generates wealth is still in need of reform?
(13) The local football club, Nacional, was supposed to be playing in the new stadium, but they are having to make do with a municipal ground with two open ends, missing floodlight bulbs and a hand-operated scoreboard with wonky numbers.
(14) The wonky-legged genius was then controversially not suspended for the final (some bonus detail here ), basically because the Brazil FA fixed the disciplinary panel hearing.
(15) An hour gone and this is a very wonky debate, both candidates keeping it very close.
(16) For what elevates The Ladykillers way above panto predictability is that it operates slightly off-centre; it takes its cue from its heroine (christened Mrs Lopsided), rattling about in her wonky house, perched by the railway sidings.
(17) Using abortion and gay marriage against Bush and Co Hillary being Hillary: Clinton flaunts wonky side at Washington panel Read more Establishment-backed candidates-in-waiting like Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have sought to avoid discussing reproductive rights and same-sex marriage, as the party struggles to make inroads with both young and female voters.
(18) Americans like their pop stars to be just so; the British like theirs to be a bit wonky.
(19) The trimmings are shabby and the pebbly bottomed pool is huge, 140m by 40m – it easily accommodates two wonky-tiered fountains in that familiar pool-paint blue.
(20) 8.18pm BST Paul scowls at Kim's wonky pastry tomb to the dead pig.