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n. - The quality of making a high-pitched noise.

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  • Somebody already addressed this elsewhere stating that the alleged "creakiness" numbers were contrived & exaggerated & mitigated by vehicle processing activity.
  • On the contrary, it turns to thoughts of sulphur tablets and camomile tea and other sickly or disagreeable circumventions of the "creakiness" of the human body.
  • In IE however, we have almost universally loss of creakiness insted.
  • Recently there has been an unfamiliar creakiness in Boitano's performances.
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