ramshackle

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The film is not about a tugboat operator, nor does it follow the life and times of the ramshackle group working at a service garage.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2026

I also inherited my beloved — at least by me — ramshackle family home that has not been lived in for more than 20 years.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

The film crew built a ramshackle house on the 8,000-acre estate to represent a free clinic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela