How To Use Rackety In A Sentence
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He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.
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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
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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).
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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'
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We led quite a rackety life when the children were growing up.
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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
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Fallada's writing and rackety lifestyle had resulted more than once in interrogation by the Gestapo.
Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – review
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People are just wandering to church in their purple nylon jackets, or pottering along in rackety Skodas.
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The Social Democrats ran a much more rackety taxi service, partly because their organization was mere middle-class improvisation.
POLITICAL SUICIDE
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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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Perhaps surprisingly, in view of her childless marriages and rackety life, Kar seems to have been fond of children, and produced some lively family groups, in which all participants seem happily and messily engaged.
Portraits of the artists
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There is a lot of noise in this city of ours, what with sirens screaming, buses screeching and LOUD music blaring out of headphones on already rackety subway cars.
Shhhh. Oh, Never Mind.
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In her memoir she describes her career as "rackety".
The Guardian World News
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He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.
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I shan't be as close to the centre of London as all that, and it's likely to be a fairly rackety household.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Mary, it turns out, has led a thoroughly rackety sort of life.
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He sat quite still watching out of the window and saying with the car; rackety, clackety, klang, klong; rackety, clackety, klang, klong!
Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds
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Swede Ralston was always pretty rackety as well as skilled.
Uneasy aftermath (Jack Bog's Blog)
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When the memoirs of Miss Pamela Andrews appeared, the future biographer of her doubly supposititious brother was a not very young man of thirty-three, who had written a good many not very good plays, had contributed to periodicals, and had done a little work at the Bar, besides living, at least till his marriage and it may be feared later, an exceedingly "rackety" life.
The English Novel
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Trains have the personality, the tension, the romance of all travel - of waiting-rooms and tea-rooms and the music of the rackety lurch.
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Bletchley was quite inspiring: a lovely old manor house surrounded by some rackety and decrepit WWII-era huts, with some brick buildings as well.
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The rackety blowup over Derek Jeter's scheduled non-appearance at Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Fashion Catwalk in Phoenix before the game, I was still hopeful Jeter would jump out of a cake at home plate with Manny Ramirez has proven one thing: Some people sure like telling other people they need to show up to stuff.
A Quick-and-Dirty Guide to 'Do I Need to Show Up?'
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In the good old days or were they the bad ones? the twice yearly dishing out of gongs with exotic, anachronistic names was colourful, class-ridden and decidedly rackety, like much else in post-imperial British public life.
New Year honours' dishonourable past | Michael White
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Light Up the Sky (1948), a rackety farce that Hart pretentiously described as "Shavian," is occasionally revived, but chiefly before the undemanding audiences for dinner theater and summer stock.
Moss Hart Stars in Act Two: A Charmed and Troubled Life
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What he meant, and what Mademoiselle Valle knew he meant -- also what he knew she knew he meant -- was that a woman, who was a heartless fool, without sympathy or perception, would not have the delicacy to feel that the girl must be shielded, and might actually see a sort of ghastly joke in a story of Mademoiselle Valle's sacrosanct charge simply walking out of her enshrining arms into such a "galere" as the most rackety and adventurous of pupils could scarcely have been led into.
The Head of the House of Coombe
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He made no apologies for his rackety lifestyle, his liking for louche and even sleazy companions, his lavish consumption of cigars, brandy and champagne.