creaky

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    worn and broken down by hard use
    having a rasping or grating sound
    of or pertaining to arthritis

Word Origin

creaky (adj.)
1834, from creak + -y (2). Related: Creakily; creakiness.

Example

1. This creaky system struggles to deliver the half-a-billion tonnes of coal that indians demand each year .
2. Many of beijing 's waterways were filled in , leaving just this creaky relic of sino-soviet amity to save its streets from flooding .
3. This helped transform them from creaky relics of soviet-style central planning to leaner businesses with a sharper commercial focus .
4. But requests to import goods that would compete with products from burma 's creaky state industries are generally denied .

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