rick·et·y

(rĭk′ĭ-tē)

adj. rick·et·i·er, rick·et·i·est

1. Likely to break or fall apart; shaky.

2. Feeble with age; infirm.

3. Of, having, or resembling rickets.

rick′et·i·ness n.

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Noun

ricketiness - the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place

unsteadiness

movability, movableness - the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged

ricketiness

noun

The quality or condition of being physically unsteady:

instability, precariousness, shakiness, unstableness, unsteadiness, wobbliness.

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A literal sweatshop, this jerry-built structure is at once concrete, fantastical, and metaphorical, its ricketiness no contradiction of the grinding realities it indexes.

Mika Rottenberg

D'Amour certainly has a fine touch at finding the comical in ricketiness and bad habits.

Detroit

The pervasive aura of ricketiness and nonalignment gives the set a look of instability and temporariness, as though it had been hastily assembled anew before each performance, in much the same way that a Russian fair was assembled and demounted and reassembled for each of its resurrections.

Russian Constructivist Architecture as an Urban Carnival: The Creation and Reception of a Utopian Narrative(1)

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