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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rattletrap
Adjective
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Souter was perfectly happy with his secluded life in Weare, New Hampshire, living with his elderly mother in a ramshackle cabin in the woods.—
Barbara A. Perry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025 -
Indeed, the Democratic Party has become a ramshackle, disheveled party and has given a new meaning to spontaneous combustion.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
10 May 2025
Adjective
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Its setting is a tumbledown farm in Kentucky in 1910, the home of the soft-spoken, musically minded Lionel Worthing (Mescal), who has grown up obsessed with regional folk music.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
22 May 2025
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All except a few dozen hardy souls who formed the historical society and began patching the scars of this tumbledown town.—
Roger Naylor,
The Arizona Republic,
22 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Griff's was a cozy space inside with a small, rickety wooden patio in the front and a larger one in the back.—
Brianna Griff,
Chron,
13 Jan. 2023
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Instead of rickety outdoor patios with plastic partitions, diners mostly ate in dining rooms.—
Nick Kindelsperger,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Dec. 2022
Adjective
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However, its stabilizers are loud, especially the rackety spacebar that popped up aggressively with a loud plastic clack during testing.—
Scharon Harding,
Ars Technica,
23 Feb. 2022
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Whether the rackety Italian state can process this money effectively, however, is a different question.—
Andrew Stuttaford,
National Review,
18 Aug. 2020
Adjective
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Rattletrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rattletrap. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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