makeshifty
adjEtymology From makeshift + -y.
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Somewhat makeshift.
- Acteon had first met him at the man's makeshifty trial where he'd been reclassified mind-redundant. The bullion had never been recovered.1981, John Domatilla, The Last Crime, page 11:
- Still, however makeshifty the idea of language was, he could see no choice.2018, T. Price Caldwell, Oliver Cresswell, Robert J. Stainton, Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice, page 65:
- Derived terms
- makeshiftiness