Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to a shoddily built structure.
- adjective Anything that is ill-constructed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It now looks like MERS and the system set up to legalize securitization was jerrybuilt at best.
Ted Kaufman: Will the Mortgage Mess Meet Too Big To Fail? Ted Kaufman 2011
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It now looks like MERS and the system set up to legalize securitization was jerrybuilt at best.
Ted Kaufman: Will the Mortgage Mess Meet Too Big To Fail? Ted Kaufman 2011
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And in the courtyard there's a jerrybuilt airplane.
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None of that is true and none of this are reasons to set up jerrybuilt courts that Obama rejected as he ran for President.
Martin Garbus: There is No Need for Wretched Un-American Military Commissions 2009
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I'm not aware that much of the jerrybuilt crapitecture she engenders with her rezonings is sustainable or top level.
Assuring the Palm Beach Crowd Brooks of Sheffield 2008
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For months, displaced villagers lived on floating islands jerrybuilt from deadwood and leaves, afraid to sleep on shore lest they fall prey to new attacks.
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Roughly speaking it is a money-stratification, but it is also interpenetrated by a sort of shadowy caste-system; rather like a jerrybuilt modem bungalow haunted by medieval ghosts.
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Toy houses falling down signified Emmett's jerrybuilt shacks crashing in the '33 earthquake; children hiding under store mannequins dressed in ersatz German uniforms portrayed Emmett the yellow.
White Jazz Ellroy, James, 1948- 1992
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Georgetown waterfronts, industrial dilapidation on the shorelines more appropriately matches that pollution in mood, and on the Virginia side here and there undistinguished, often jerrybuilt highrise clutter has taken the place of the calm and wooded hills toward which the capital city once could look.
The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior United States. Dept. of the Interior.
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Roughly speaking it is a money-stratification, but it is also interpenetrated by a sort of shadowy caste-system; rather like a jerrybuilt modem bungalow haunted by medieval ghosts.
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