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
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.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The deaths underscore the squalid conditions that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents find themselves in after fleeing Israeli bombardment and offensives.
—Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Here’s hoping the new administration heeds his impulse to admit the very most talented foreigners while tightening up on a ramshackle legal immigration system that serves our interests poorly.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
Low-scudding, rain-laden clouds threaten to soak a group of Palestinian farmers huddling around their ramshackle sheep sheds as the Israel Defense Forces troops drive up to serve them eviction notices.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 26 Dec. 2024
The deaths underscore the squalid conditions that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents find themselves in after fleeing Israeli bombardment and offensives.
—Sam Mednick, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Here’s hoping the new administration heeds his impulse to admit the very most talented foreigners while tightening up on a ramshackle legal immigration system that serves our interests poorly.
—The Editors, National Review, 30 Dec. 2024
Low-scudding, rain-laden clouds threaten to soak a group of Palestinian farmers huddling around their ramshackle sheep sheds as the Israel Defense Forces troops drive up to serve them eviction notices.
—Nic Robertson, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ramshackle
Adjective
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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
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A day later his car was found abandoned but undamaged in a parking lot near Congaree National Park about 20 miles southeast of Columbia.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
3 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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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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They were forced to live in dilapidated buildings with mold, sewage, and rodent issues, and were confined to their rooms for weeks on end.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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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 3 Mar. 2025.
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