Ramshackle
adjective
A place or object in a state of severe disrepair.
The old, ramshackle house was barely standing.
Often appears as...
- ramshackle house
- ramshackle building
adjective
A place or object in a state of severe disrepair.
The old, ramshackle house was barely standing.
Often appears as...
- ramshackle house
- ramshackle building
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Pro Tip 1/3Physical Condition
Used to describe objects or structures, indicating they are rundown and on the verge of collapse.
A ramshackle barn swayed in the wind, its wooden planks groaning.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Implication
Evokes a visual image of neglect, age, and potential danger due to instability.
The abandoned lot was filled with ramshackle equipment and rusted cars.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Speech
Often used in casual conversation rather than formal writing or presentations.
We played in the ramshackle treehouse, ignoring its creaks and leaks.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Condition
Used to describe objects or structures, indicating they are rundown and on the verge of collapse.
A ramshackle barn swayed in the wind, its wooden planks groaning.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Implication
Evokes a visual image of neglect, age, and potential danger due to instability.
The abandoned lot was filled with ramshackle equipment and rusted cars.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Speech
Often used in casual conversation rather than formal writing or presentations.
We played in the ramshackle treehouse, ignoring its creaks and leaks.
Pro Tip 1/3Physical Condition
Used to describe objects or structures, indicating they are rundown and on the verge of collapse.
A ramshackle barn swayed in the wind, its wooden planks groaning.
Pro Tip 2/3Visual Implication
Evokes a visual image of neglect, age, and potential danger due to instability.
The abandoned lot was filled with ramshackle equipment and rusted cars.
Pro Tip 3/3Informal Speech
Often used in casual conversation rather than formal writing or presentations.
We played in the ramshackle treehouse, ignoring its creaks and leaks.
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Video examples
The tale of the doctor...
In their ramshackle hut on the edge of the woods, a husband and wife were in despair. The woman had just given birth to their thirteenth child, and the growing family was quickly running out of food and money. The father walked into the woods to ponder their problem. After hours spent wandering through the trees,
Video examples
The tale of the doctor...
In their ramshackle hut on the edge of the woods, a husband and wife were in despair. The woman had just given birth to their thirteenth child, and the growing family was quickly running out of food and money. The father walked into the woods to ponder their problem. After hours spent wandering through the trees,
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Quote examples
Mona Simpson
American Author
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.
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Shelby Steele
American Author
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.
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Linda Colley
British Historian
In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.
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Jeff Giles
American Editor
In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
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Bez
English Dancer
In a funny sort of way, the ramshackle bunch known as the Happy Mondays were a lifesaver for me.
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Sue Perkins
English Comedian
I don't look great. I'm a bit ramshackle.
Quote examples
Mona Simpson
American Author
In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.
Quote examples
Shelby Steele
American Author
My father bought three ramshackle houses, rebuilt them, rented them out, kept clawing his way up the ladder. A man with a third grade education from the south.
Quote examples
Linda Colley
British Historian
In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.
Quote examples
Jeff Giles
American Editor
In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
Quote examples
Bez
English Dancer
In a funny sort of way, the ramshackle bunch known as the Happy Mondays were a lifesaver for me.
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Sue Perkins
English Comedian
I don't look great. I'm a bit ramshackle.
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