creakier; creakiest
2
: showing signs of deterioration or decrepitude
a creaky old house
a creaky economy
Examples of creaky in a Sentence
The new governor promises to work to revive the state's creaky economy.
a computer system that is creaky with age
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The Ellis lift, a creaky triple chair that notoriously left skiers stranded for hours, got a mechanical update in 2020, but plans to replace Ellis with a detachable quad haven’t happened yet.
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Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
As is often the case, hell is pictured as a creaky bureaucracy, with out of date manuals and orders sent by fax; representative Midge (Jolene Purdy) likens the recruitment of souls to a multilevel marketing scheme.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
But don’t let his creaky joints fool ya: ol’ Dale’s got stories galore, spun from the dusty trails of the frontier days… and a few of ’em might just send a shiver right on down yer spine.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
Like so many old buildings in upstate New York, this one — an 18th-century farmhouse with a white clapboard facade and gabled roof — was peaceful by day but creaky at night, when its oversize windows seemed suddenly too large, and its location, just outside the village of Tivoli, too remote.
—Blaine Davis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
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Megan Michelson, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2025
As is often the case, hell is pictured as a creaky bureaucracy, with out of date manuals and orders sent by fax; representative Midge (Jolene Purdy) likens the recruitment of souls to a multilevel marketing scheme.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2025
But don’t let his creaky joints fool ya: ol’ Dale’s got stories galore, spun from the dusty trails of the frontier days… and a few of ’em might just send a shiver right on down yer spine.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Mar. 2025
Like so many old buildings in upstate New York, this one — an 18th-century farmhouse with a white clapboard facade and gabled roof — was peaceful by day but creaky at night, when its oversize windows seemed suddenly too large, and its location, just outside the village of Tivoli, too remote.
—Blaine Davis, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Creaky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creaky. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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