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Definition of Ricketiest
1. rickety [adj] - See also: rickety
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ricketiest
Literary usage of Ricketiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"But their orphans could n't get one thousandth part of the amount of protection
from our noble Government that the feeblest and ricketiest Infant Industry ..."
2. A Flower-hunter in Queensland & New Zealand by Marian Ellis Ryan Rowan, Ellis Rowan (1898)
"... and Timothy Cox, a regular Paddy from Cork, was ready to take us over the
river in the smallest and ricketiest of punts with a pair of decrepit oars. ..."
3. A Flower-hunter in Queensland & New Zealand by Marian Ellis Ryan Rowan, Ellis Rowan (1898)
"... and Timothy Cox, a regular Paddy from Cork, was ready to take us over the
river in the smallest and ricketiest of punts with a pair of decrepit oars. ..."
4. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A, General Assembly (1892)
"Unfortunately—because I return to find the men gone, the job completed, the awning
carefully stretched over a barrow of the ricketiest kind, looking as if ..."
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