1 in a way that is old-fashioned and not now effective: --
The first episode creakily establishes the characters and their backgrounds.
Their new website makes those of its rivals look creakily old-fashioned.
The show that was once so innovative in particular its real-time 24-hour countdown has become creakily formulaic.
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.
On top of that there was rationing, most of which we still have, and, then, rather creakily, price control worked.
The first episode of a new series starts creakily, but warms up.
The ballet has dated creakily and suits neither of these dancers.
She grasped the dusty handle of the passenger-side door and drew it creakily open.
