ramshackle

adj

1. 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;[…]”

   “There came […] my lord the cardinal, in his ramshackle coach.”

   “I called for the cheeses, and took them away in a cab. It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse.”

   “A ramshackle old empire. (of Austria-Hungary).”

2. 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

1. (obsolete, transitive)To ransack.