jerry-built

Speech parts

1. jerry-built - Adjective

2. jerry-built - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

jerry built

Synonyms

rocky poor weak rough slight unstable cheap inferior crude inadequate fragile unacceptable imperfect disappointing faulty

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Antonyms

workmanlike well done

Related terms

jerry-builder jerry-build

Examples

We're none of us more than wisps of desire and imagining! What man is not, at the center of his mind, a ghostly wish-to-be haunting the jerry-built habitation of his imperfect acts? Haunting the maze of what-has-been? Michael Shea

mean little jerry-built houses Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

jerry-build jerry-builder jerry-building jerry-rig jerry-rigged jerry-shop