Adjective

(en adjective)

wet and limp; unkempt

decaying, decrepit or dilapidated

* 1919 , (Saki), The Toys of Peace and Other Papers

She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I’m sick of being told that it’s the envy of the neighbourhood; it’s like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.

Adjective

(en adjective)

In disrepair or disorder; poorly maintained; lacking upkeep, usually of buildings or vehicles.

* Thackeray

There came my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.

They stayed in a ramshackle cabin on the beach.

He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence.

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