as in abandoned
showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect
She earns her living buying ramshackle homes, restoring them, and selling them at a profit.
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Recent Examples of ramshackle
Yet many Afghans still see their ramshackle state as illegitimate, and progress toward rebuilding and stabilizing the country remains elusive.
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Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2011
Branch, outside a decaying town of 2,000 in one of America’s poorest counties, sits a ramshackle red brick home.
—Michael Kranish, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
There’s something so warm and immediately likable about their indie pop, which has the ramshackle quality and indelible hooks of P.S. Eliot or Swearing.
—Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
The landlord was a bearded beatnik, a vestige of another era, who’d bought several ramshackle structures for a song in the sixties and liked to curate an assortment of interesting tenants.
—Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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Jason Lyall, Foreign Affairs, 15 Dec. 2011
Branch, outside a decaying town of 2,000 in one of America’s poorest counties, sits a ramshackle red brick home.
—Michael Kranish, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
There’s something so warm and immediately likable about their indie pop, which has the ramshackle quality and indelible hooks of P.S. Eliot or Swearing.
—Keegan Bradford, SPIN, 25 July 2024
The landlord was a bearded beatnik, a vestige of another era, who’d bought several ramshackle structures for a song in the sixties and liked to curate an assortment of interesting tenants.
—Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ramshackle
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According to the nonprofit, Kristin Davis found the abandoned and weak elephant calf while on a trip near Kenya's Chyulu Hills.Kelli Bender, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
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All except a few dozen hardy souls who formed the historical society and began patching the scars of this tumbledown town.Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2024
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The project is in a tumbledown section of Oildale, situated between an optical lens store and aquatic pet shop.Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
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But the main facility’s current dilapidated state is not a safe and rehabilitative environment for any of the more than 1,300 people locked up.Editorial Board, Washington Post, 21 June 2024
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In 1853, Ann Pamela Cunningham, a well-to-do woman from South Carolina who was shocked by accounts of the dilapidated state of the home, founded the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union to save it, according to the website.Michael E. Ruane The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 20 Oct. 2024
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Griff's was a cozy space inside with a small, rickety wooden patio in the front and a larger one in the back.Brianna Griff, Chron, 13 Jan. 2023
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Instead of rickety outdoor patios with plastic partitions, diners mostly ate in dining rooms.Nick Kindelsperger, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
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“Ramshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ramshackle. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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