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Definition of Creakier
1. creaky [adj] - See also: creaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Creakier
Literary usage of Creakier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser (1916)
"I mounted the stairs, now creakier than ever, and entered a room which in our
day seemed comparatively well furnished. It was memorable to me because of a ..."
2. Dumb Foxglove: And Other Stories by Annie Trumbull Slosson (1898)
"Now I 'ain't got much ear for music, they say, and I was that scared my voice
was creakier than common. I can't turn many tunes, but that one turns itself, ..."
3. For Husks, Food by W. E. Youngman (1874)
"Up, up, up—would he never stop 1 his companion thought; and every moment the
stairs grew creakier, the coarse songs louder, the air more heavy with disease ..."
4. A Hoosier Holiday by Theodore Dreiser (1916)
"I mounted the stairs, now creakier than ever, and entered a room which in our
day seemed comparatively well furnished. It was memorable to me because of a ..."
5. Dumb Foxglove: And Other Stories by Annie Trumbull Slosson (1898)
"Now I 'ain't got much ear for music, they say, and I was that scared my voice
was creakier than common. I can't turn many tunes, but that one turns itself, ..."
6. For Husks, Food by W. E. Youngman (1874)
"Up, up, up—would he never stop 1 his companion thought; and every moment the
stairs grew creakier, the coarse songs louder, the air more heavy with disease ..."
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