ill-made

So it came over the sea, out of the Jaws of Enlad towards Gont, a dim ill-made thing pacing uneasy on the waves, peering down the wind as it came; and the cold rain blew through it.

Newer, two-story structures had fallen like ill-made soufflés.

The ill-made knight turned to his oldest friend, to the first person he had loved with his poises.

Sweet quotes Basil Wright, a documentary film-maker of the time, calling them "a great dreary mass of tasteless ill-made films which debased the spectators if they didn't send them to sleep".

He wrote some twenty-odd books but is remembered today mostly for “The Once and Future King,” in which he hid himself occasionally as Arthur, more often as Merlyn, but above all as Lancelot, the ill-made knight who was for a time the best in the world at his craft yet carried within him a shame so old and deep that he could not even name it.