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In some senses, ramshackle is marked as obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.
They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.
Steady old Curés come jolting past, now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in;[…]
Badly or carelessly organized.
So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times.
The alliance that pushed the Inflation Reduction Act into law in August was always a somewhat fragile and ramshackle one: Green New Dealers and the coal-state senator Joe Manchin, carbon-capture geeks and environmental justice warriors, all herded together in the sort of big-tent play you get with a 50-50 Senate and one party functionally indifferent on climate.
verb
To ransack.