[ UK /ɹˈækɪti/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. uncontrollably noisy
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How To Use rackety In A Sentence

  • He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.
  • We dance here in Apia a most fearful and wonderful quadrille, I don’t know where the devil they fished it from; but it is rackety and prancing and embraceatory beyond words; perhaps it is best defined in Haggard’s expression of a gambado. Vailima Letters
  • It was immortalised by Xu Zhimo, a 20th-century poet with all the attributes required for lasting celebrity: talent, a rackety love life and a dramatic early death (plane crash at 34).
  • Boyd has described it as an "emotional, dramatic and rackety journey" through the "long and tumultuous life" of a writer, Logan Mountstuart. Hayley Atwell: 'The real me is a loner, a nerd and a bit overweight'
  • We led quite a rackety life when the children were growing up.
  • I wanted to invent my own exemplary figure who could seem almost as real as the real ones and whose life followed a similar pattern: boarding school, university, Paris in the 20s, the rise of Fascism, war, post-war neglect, disillusion, increasing decrepitude, and so ona long, varied and rackety life that covered most of the century. William Boyd - An interview with author
  • Fallada's writing and rackety lifestyle had resulted more than once in interrogation by the Gestapo. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – review
  • People are just wandering to church in their purple nylon jackets, or pottering along in rackety Skodas.
  • The Social Democrats ran a much more rackety taxi service, partly because their organization was mere middle-class improvisation. POLITICAL SUICIDE
  • Rackety, clackety, klang, klong! and down the tunnel came a train of cars. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
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