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