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jerry-built
adjective as in flimsy
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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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On this page you'll find 187 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jerry built, such as: cheap, defective, insubstantial, jerry-rigged, junky, and makeshift.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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