ramshackle

Instead of taking us inside ramshackle houses and down cold streets, we swim with Robbie and Maeve at the local quarry, their small piece of paradise, and walk through its woods.

The ramshackle structures that survive — often with missing roofs and walls, and stairs leading nowhere — have little in common, save for their shambolic, ad hoc construction designed less for permanence than speed and low price.

The Dreadnaught was — well, you’ve eaten there, or someplace like it: a big, old, ramshackle driftwood pile, built out over the water on ancient wooden pylons.

The areas being searched are close to a ramshackle dwelling where Brückner lived at the time of Madeleine's disappearance.

We watch as Anima pours gasoline all over a snowy ramshackle house in the mountains and lights it on fire before driving away.