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jerry-built

synonyms for jerry-built

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I was an Innkeeper, who loved to carouse; J was a Joiner, and built up a house.

The jagged top and spurs of San Jacinto Mountain shone like the turrets and posterns of a citadel built of rubies.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

The private chapel, built out from the house on the side next Calne, had not been used for years and years.

ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD

He hardly recognised himself, for, the foundations being shaken, all that was built upon them trembled too.

THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD

Civilisation is built up of the "heresies" of men who thought freely and spoke bravely.

The boy lifted up his pet, and put him back in the pen that had been especially built for the little pig.

Then, kindly and gently, the boy took Squinty over to the place where the corn crib was built on to the barn.

He rose and kissed her lightly on the forehead, experience teaching him to avoid a stray hair from the carefully built coiffure.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

In some parts of Korea the houses were built of stout timbers, the chinks covered with woven cane and plastered with mud.

The road had been built for bringing down lumber, and for six miles it was at perilous angles.

RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985