1 in a way that is old-fashioned and not now effective:
Their new website makes those of its rivals look creakily old-fashioned.
The first episode creakily establishes the characters and their backgrounds.
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 ballet has dated creakily and suits neither of these dancers.
The first episode of a new series starts creakily, but warms up.
On top of that there was rationing, most of which we still have, and, then, rather creakily, price control worked.
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.
