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Creaky   /krˈiki/   Listen
Creaky

adjective
1.
Worn and broken down by hard use.  Synonyms: decrepit, derelict, flea-bitten, run-down, woebegone.  "A decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape" , "A flea-bitten sofa" , "A run-down neighborhood" , "A woebegone old shack"
2.
Having a rasping or grating sound.  Synonym: screaky.
3.
Of or pertaining to arthritis.  Synonyms: arthritic, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy.  "Rheumy with age and grief"





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"Creaky" Quotes from Famous Books



... was the front that was intact, but when our captain opened the street door we faced a cellar. Nothing beside remained. Or else we stepped upon creaky floors that sagged, through rooms swept by the iron brooms into vast dust heaps. From these protruded wounded furniture—the leg of a table, the broken arm of a chair, ...
— With the French in France and Salonika • Richard Harding Davis
... after visits to a certain doctor who rearranges the lines of his face. The transformation is effected every day now (some of our prominent actresses are said to have benefited by this operation), but in 1894 the mechanism of the trick must have been appallingly creaky. This story, indeed, borders on the burlesque and has almost as much claim to the title as "The Green Carnation." Was the author laughing at the Eighteen Nineties? The period is subtly evoked in one detail, constantly reiterated in Saltus's early books: ladies and gentlemen when they leave a room ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten


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