Definition of "ramshackle" adjective comparative more ramshackle , superlative most ramshackle
In disrepair or disorder ; poorly maintained ; lacking upkeep , usually of buildings or vehicles . quotations examples
Quotations There came […] my lord the cardinal , in his ramshackle coach .
1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], page 347
The villa was a roomy white house , which , as is the case with most continental houses , looked to an English eye frail , ramshackle , and absurdly frivolous , more like a pagoda in a tea -garden than a place where one slept .
1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1949
verb third-person singular simple present ramshackles , present participle ramshackling , simple past and past participle ramshackled