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jerry-built

[ jer-ee-bilt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

built cheaply and flimsily.
Synonyms: slipshod, shoddy, rickety, ramshackle
contrived or developed in a haphazard, unsubstantial fashion, as a project or organization.

1865–70; jerry (as in jerry-build ) + built

See the finest position in the neighbourhood occupied by a jerry-built Moorish nightmare?

And the house being jerry built, the new ceilings are only guaranteed to stay up, if they are not pushed.

I had put up overnight in his jerry-built hostelry, and all had gone well until breakfast time.

The semi-suburban towns stretched forth long, rawly-red arms of ugly, little, jerry-built streets and terraces.

Have they failed, let us pity their hunt through some newer and cheaper suburb for a jerry-built roof over rheumatic bones.

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