Vocabulary
Rickety
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Poorly made and likely to collapse in bad or weak condition.
Urdu meaning
لاغر یا کمزور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Ironically, as technology advances, bedside skills become rickety.
- But as we limp our way back into political (ab)normalcy, here is another week`s offering (hopefully, my last) on war and rickety peace.
- But temperance should also be in place because of the rickety ceasefire in place.
- To underline that he did not resent his long-haul commute `a wee beet`, he added, `Brother, my grandmother is still roughing it out on rickety donkey carts on unpaved African roads.` It was an apparent jibe at my antecedents in Tharparkar.
- Three-quarters of affected learners live in low and lower-middle-income countries, where rickety school infrastructure struggles to serve mushrooming populations.
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