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 Translation for 'rickety' from English to Esperanto
ADJ   rickety | more rickety | most rickety
SYNO debile | decrepit | feeble | ...
kaduka {adj}rickety
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Translation for 'rickety' from English to Esperanto

rickety
kaduka {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • They were intended to replace the aging, rickety state railway line engines performing shunting duties in their dotage at large stations.
  • The bélé song-dances include the "bélé soté", "bélé priòrité", "bélé djouba", "bélé contredanse", "bélé rickety" and "bélé pitjé".
  • The charm of the film to cycling enthusiasts is to see the Tour as it was four decades ago, when the winners stood on rickety podiums of scaffold poles, slept in shabby hotels and retrieved a spanner from their pockets to change the height of their handlebars as they rode.
  • In Uppsala, since 1975, students honor spring by rafting on Fyris river through the center of town with rickety, homemade, in fact quite easily wreckable, and often humorously decorated rafts.
  • Her first feature film, "I-San Special", featured the audio from a radio soap opera set in a luxury resort hotel, played out by passengers on a rickety bus heading from Bangkok to Isan.

  • The KFFA studios were on the second floor of the Floyd Truck Lines building, a rickety old structure.
  • Its consensus reads, "Zardoz" is ambitious and epic in scope, but its philosophical musings are rendered ineffective by its supreme weirdness and rickety execution".
  • The Avalon's standing as Easton’s premier movie house ended in 1985 after a 64-year run. Suffering from mildew, cracks in the walls, stained carpeting and rickety seats, the Avalon closed in 1985.
  • In 1867, a wooden tower was first built on the site, at that time 22 metres tall. After the First World War, this first tower had become so rickety that it had to be pulled down.
  • When the rickety plane broke down, she ran out of money and returned to the Netherlands, and gave up flying professionally.

  • Ann Hornaday of "The Washington Post" wrote: "Despite the sometimes rickety scaffolding they're asked to inhabit, all of the actors deliver honest, grounded performances".
  • "Dead in the Water" is a horror novel which involves several characters (a cancer-ridden boy and his doctor father, a bickering wealthy couple, an old lady whose husband was lost at sea, and a female cop who once failed to save the life of a drowning boy) aboard a rickety old freighter.
  • All About Jazz commented: "Part of the lasting brilliance of "Bells" is that the group is much more roughshod at this early stage, the ensemble not yet formed into a cohesive, balanced whole but a rickety patchwork, its seams (and therefore process) showing proudly through".
  • In 2015 his best known book is "The Living Great Lakes", about his trip around the great lakes in a rickety ship.
  • Peter Bradshaw of "theguardian" dubbed it as "terrible", "cheapo" and "lazy, rickety nonsense". He awarded it one star out of five.

  • The participants were placed on a rickety boat bound for Christmas Island.
  • The boys lived in a 1936 Works Progress Administration building described by "Time" as "rickety".
  • Daughter Susan has remained behind to marry Axel and remain in the safety of the embassy while Walter, Marion, and Drobney escape Vulgaria in a rickety biplane.
  • Under its Happy House program—started in 1997—HHF provides housing for homeless and poor families residing in rickety hovels.
  • Gu-nam accepts and leaves for South Korea by train and a rickety fishing boat, with [...] for expenses.

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