Adjective, : a rickety chair. ,a rickety old man. From Dictionary.com.
Then ricketiness will supervene on physical properties. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
But it doesn't follow that this car's then not starting will be caused by its property of ricketiness. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
How it paid him might be inferred from the oldness of his clothes and the ricketiness of his office. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day] Reference
The stylized vocals remain, teetering on the brink of psychosis, but the sound's no longer cluttered with notes flying everywhere, and the melodies have been simplified, retaining just enough of an endearing ricketiness. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
When she had made the old miser's rooms to her mind, we might have understood, if we had speculated about it, how it was that she had not profited by my mother's sound advice to send all his "rubbishy odds and ends" (the irregularity and ricketiness and dustiness of which made my mother shudder) to be. From Wordnik.com. [We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys] Reference
(Suppose ricketiness, in a car, is defined as the property of having some loose part. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism] Reference
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