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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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.
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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
What may look ramshackle or dilapidated from one angle makes good sense from another.
—Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
No sooner asked than done: A miracle appears, in the form of the Green Knight, and the ramshackle band of second-string knights sets off to find a Holy Lance.
—Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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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
What may look ramshackle or dilapidated from one angle makes good sense from another.
—Jeremy Adelman, Foreign Affairs, 1 May 2012
No sooner asked than done: A miracle appears, in the form of the Green Knight, and the ramshackle band of second-string knights sets off to find a Holy Lance.
—Elizabeth Hand, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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“Ramshackle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ramshackle. Accessed 24 Oct. 2024.
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