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jerrybuilt

Adjective

Meaning

jerrybuilt

Shoddily built; ill-constructed.
The whole operation was jerrybuilt from the beginning, and thus was doomed to failure.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

They had jerrybuilt the beaches from San Diego to the Golden Gate, bulldozed super-highways through mountains, cut down a thousand year of redwood growth, and built an urban wilderness in the desert. They couldn't touch the ocean. They poured their sewage into it, but it couldn't be tainted. Ross Macdonald

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