Meanings
comparative more makeshifty · superlative most makeshifty
- 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 651 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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