makeshifty

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adjective

Somewhat makeshift.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

adjectivemakeshifty (comparative more makeshifty, superlative most makeshifty)

comparative more makeshifty · superlative most makeshifty

  1. Somewhat makeshift.

    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
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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