ramshackle
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əl adjective
loosely made or held together; rickety; shaky: a ramshackle house.
Related forms
ram·shack·le·ness, noun
Synonyms
tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, flimsy.
tumbledown, dilapidated, derelict, flimsy.
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| —adj | |
| (esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict | |
| [C17 ramshackled, from obsolete ransackle to | |
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Ramshackle
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Word Origin & History
ramshackle
1830, back-formation from ramshackled, earlier ranshackled (1675), alteration of ransackled, pp. of ransackle (see ransack).
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Example sentences
Cabins in ramshackle condition and much debris on site.
Many of the townspeople continued the tradition of farming with the aid of migrant workers, who lived in ramshackle huts.
We would share vodka and salmon caviar with melancholy park rangers in ramshackle huts.
But it remains a messy mixture of the ramshackle, the resilient and the energetic.
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