action, caught short, effort, found wanting, inaccurate, mock, refuge, spare, taken aback, undevised, vicarious
Definitionadj. done or made using whatever is available
Last update: July 3, 2015
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The makeshift bar in the corner, however, drew her attention. [Please select]
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"Only as a makeshift." [Please select]
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The wrecked church was an impromptu hospital beneath whose shattered roof dozens of these men lay helpless on makeshift cots. [Please select]
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This would suggest the agency of gradual heat in rendering clay fit for use in cookery and preferable to any previous makeshift. [Please select]
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As he spoke, he set foot against the makeshift door, and away it went, as he had predicted. [Please select]
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Both knew instinctively that this learned discourse was but a makeshift, a circuitous route past danger-points. [Please select]
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She beckoned to Kortes, and he, coming, wrenched open the door, which seemed to have been fastened by some makeshift arrangement. [Please select]
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Did not this sensible fellow's mouth become a splendid makeshift hand, and his glance an excellent speech. [Please select]
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Again and again they were reduced to this makeshift cobbling until finally a fatal goring finished them. [Please select]
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The "contrary method" does not solve the problem; it is only a makeshift; it never does any real work, or accomplishes any real end. [Please select]
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This poor makeshift had scarcely any recommendation, except that it was a partial recognition of the evil which it did so little to remedy. [Please select]
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