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
Grand Tour is a little like these men and their machine: a deliberately ramshackle work made more captivating through its lack of conventional modes of propulsion and meaning.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Living in near-poverty in a series of poor apartments, or out of a ramshackle touring van for weeks on end?
—Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The tiny, ramshackle 19th-century clapboard house is light-years away from the nearby Vanderbilt Mansion, also open to the public.
—airmail.news, 27 July 2024
The 3-week-old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza's tent camps in recent days, doctors said, deaths that underscore the squalid conditions, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents after fleeing Israeli offensives.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Living in near-poverty in a series of poor apartments, or out of a ramshackle touring van for weeks on end?
—Cat Woods, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2025
The tiny, ramshackle 19th-century clapboard house is light-years away from the nearby Vanderbilt Mansion, also open to the public.
—airmail.news, 27 July 2024
The 3-week-old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza's tent camps in recent days, doctors said, deaths that underscore the squalid conditions, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents after fleeing Israeli offensives.
—Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ramshackle
Adjective
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The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
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But the findings won’t be able to say how abandoned land should be managed, or whether people should try to manage it at all.—
ByDan Charles,
science.org,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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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
Adjective
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That sounds logical, but a healthy housing market needs some extra properties to account for old or dilapidated homes that are demolished or taken out of use – not to mention some vacancies so people can move around.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA TODAY,
14 Feb. 2025
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The hotel is founded and managed by locals, who transformed a dilapidated bed-and-breakfast into a six-acre luxury hotel in 2001.—
Maya Kachroo-Levine,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Feb. 2025
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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 23 Mar. 2025.
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