Cambridge Dictionaries Online - Word of the day "Rickety"

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rickety
adjective
--> in bad condition and therefore weak and likely to break:
Careful! That chair's a bit rickety.
She slowly climbed the rickety wooden steps.
FIGURATIVE The recession put a lot of strain on an already rickety economic system.