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racketier

racketier is the comparative form of rackety.

Meaning of rackety

Adjective

rackety (comparative racketier, superlative racketiest)

  1. (informal) Making a racket; noisy.
    • The book’s initial germ was a rackety shootout not far from Mr. Chandra’s family’s co-op.2007 January 10, Patricia Leigh Brown, “An Author’s Vision of the Mean Streets of Mumbai”, in New York Times
  2. (informal) Involving, or characteristic of, a criminal racket.
    • The fact that the major European countries consider Cyprus to be a rackety semi-gangster society made it madness ever to allow the island to join the Eurozone, rather than an excuse, as now, for stealing its citizens' money.Andreas Sofroniou, Cyprus, Permanent Deprivation of Freedom (page 73)

Questions about racketier

What is racketier the comparative form of?
Racketier is the comparative form of rackety.

Words near racketier in the dictionary

  1. racketeerings
  2. racketeers
  3. racketer
  4. racketers
  5. racketh
  6. racketier
  7. racketiest
  8. racketiness
  9. racketing
  10. racketings
  11. racketlike

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