The word "creaky" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sound that is high-pitched, raspy, and intermittent, such as a door that opens with a creaky sound. For example, "He opened the door and a loud creaky sound filled the room."
A slew of TV funny men (David Schneider, Matt Lucas) pepper what's essentially a big-screen sitcom, with perhaps more laughs than its creaky premise suggests.
Dinner in the creaky, friendly dining room is a feast for eyes, taste buds and mind: the sisters are fascinating.
This includes the sampling of an ex-girlfriend's footsteps, as well as a creaky gate in Wales, as percussion noises.
"A boring National Theatre production of She Stoops to Conquer seen through drooping eyelids (why revive that creaky old thing at all?) and a snatched one-hour visit to the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (enough time to sicken of the acres of belly and parted groins) on the way to the Eurostar.
If you do it by car, it will take you a day, or you can do it slowly, stopping at strange and creaky B&Bs under the pylon.
When Mr Mubarak was overthrown, Egypt's economy was fairly healthy, its institutions intact, if creaky, and the country pretty much united.
The trouble is that he (the sole credible female candidate stands little chance) will take over a country that is deeply divided and mistrustful, with an anaemic economy and a woefully creaky bureaucracy.Confusingly, too, Egypt's next ruler will take on a post without a job description.
Since 1989, when the communists gave up, the few cases that have reached the courts have got lost in the country's creaky legal system.
It is not clear whether BBVA will eventually adopt Simple's technology for its own clients, or keep it independent.For other lenders, upgrading creaky infrastructure to allow zippy functions along the lines of Simple's may be costly, but savings will come from fewer branches.
So Mr Zhu is presumably aiming for efficiency as he confronts his country's intertwined problems—such as unemployment, deflation, flood damage, creaky banks and a wobbly state-enterprise system, to name just a few.
Now Africa needs to build its still creaky infrastructure and diversify its companies if it is to keep up its fast growth.
