makeshift
Speech parts
1. makeshift - Noun
2. makeshift - Adjective
3. makeshift - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
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Fascism was an emergency makeshift. To view it as something more would be a fatal error.
In 1989, I was on Tiananmen Square with the students, living in their makeshift tents and joining their jubilant singing of the Internationale. In the two decades since, each time that I have gone back, visions from those days seem to return with increasing persistence.
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
It is a double-edged makeshift to entrust an individual or a group of individuals with the authority to resort to violence.
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.