creaky

Modifies a noun

• floorboard: Slowly she crept across the floor trying to miss the creaky floorboards.
• voice: But I could still listen to Mason's creaky, lonely voice all day.
• door: I awake with an effort, slowly opening my eyelids like a creaky rusty garage door.
• floor: Beamed ceilings, creaky sloping floors and a wealth of character abound.
• bone: No mention yet of the land, perhaps God was first going to wait if those ' creaky old bones ' survived the journey.
• stair: You might be crammed under the low ceiling downstairs or up the creaky stairs to the equally shoehorn fit of the balcony.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Bad Points: Not sure how to improve but floors very creaky, and sounds easily through walls.
• decidedly: Stephen Dick reduced the deficit to 2-1 in the 52nd minute as England's defense looked decidedly creaky.
• slightly: It turns out I'd written a slightly creaky, rather traditional, old fashioned, west end style play.
• increasingly: Perhaps they felt this success story would dig them out of the hole being created by the revelations of increasingly creaky pre-war intelligence.
• little: Ian ( Pro back in the day early 80's ) can still gate yet his 40plus year old bones are a little creaky.
• somewhat: The plot's somewhat creaky and there's hardly any dramatic tension, but fans of this popular series won't mind a bit.

Used with adjective complement

look: The Reds were 2-0 up in the first 15 minutes but still looked creaky at the back from start to finish.