[
US
/ˈkɹiki/
]
[ UK /kɹˈiːki/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈiːki/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to arthritis
rheumy with age and grief
my creaky old joints -
worn and broken down by hard use
a woebegone old shack
a flea-bitten sofa
a creaky shack
a run-down neighborhood
a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape -
having a rasping or grating sound
creaky stairs
How To Use creaky In A Sentence
- A half-timbered family hotel with rooms off a creaky wooden balcony running round two sides of a courtyard.
- A creaky door led to a small shower room with plush red towels. Times, Sunday Times
- The world sounded with the creaky, whispery voices of the trees and the low, grating language of the stones, and all was well.
- It didn't sound like the creaky door, or even footsteps on the dusty floor.
- Translation: Are there leaky faucets, shaky headboards, running toilets and creaky floors?
- MIDI technology and digital synths have replaced creaky old unreliable analogue methods.
- The interior of the cabin is appealing, though the low roofline means that this is more a vehicle for the young and fit, than for the old and creaky.
- His childhood was lost, at the age of ten, and on that creaky floor his manhood began.
- I looked to the left, the creaky stairs and the door shut tight.
- He slowly crept up the creaky wooden stairs to the moldy second floor hallway.
