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词汇 creakily
释义 creakily
adverb
uk /ˈkriː.kəl.i/ us /ˈkriː.kəl.i/

creakilyadverb (MAKING SOUND)


in a way that makes a long, low sound: 嘎吱作响地,
The door opened creakily.门吱呀一声开了。
A child was swinging creakily on a swing. 一个孩子在秋千上嘎吱嘎吱地荡着。
In the background, someone is swinging creakily in a hammock.
She grasped the dusty handle of the passenger-side door and drew it creakily open.
The old man rose creakily to his feet.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing qualities of sound
audibly
boomy
chocolatey
chuff
clomp
crackling
ear-splitting
melodically
melodiously
metallically
murmurous
murmurously
silvery
squeaky
staccato
thready
tinnily
tunefully
tunefulness
tunelessly

creakilyadverb (OLD-FASHIONED)


in a way that is old-fashioned and not now effective: 过时地;破旧地;摇摇欲坠地
Their new website makes those of its rivals look creakily old-fashioned.他们的新网站使竞争对手的网站看起来简直老掉了牙。
The first episode creakily establishes the characters and their backgrounds.第一集很笨拙地确立了剧中人物和他们的背景。
The ballet has dated creakily and suits neither of these dancers.
The first episode of a new series starts creakily, but warms up.
The budget is creakily managed.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Old or old-fashioned
age-old
ageing
ancient
antediluvian
anti-progressive
fossilize
fossilized
frumpy
fustily
have had its/your dayidiom
outdate
outdated
outdatedly
outmoded
outworn
unmodernized
unmodish
unprogressive
unreconstructed
unsmart

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Failing and doing badly

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creaky

Examples of creakily


creakily
On top of that there was rationing, most of which we still have, and, then, rather creakily, price control worked.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
It may be working a little clumsily and a little creakily, but it is working, and it cannot be said that the proposal is not workable.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The show that was once so innovative in particular its real-time 24-hour countdown has become creakily formulaic.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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