ill-built

• “The Prince has arrived in this strange city, whose streets of ill-built houses connect to the most noble public buildings, and where one has to admire the city as a city always in the future tense," the London Times correspondent wrote of Washington.”

  The Washington Post: President-elect Lincoln arrived to a less-than-monumental Washington

• “Why has an ill-built house never been regarded as a fine monument of architecture?”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “The first most obvious undertaking was the construction of those immense usually ill-built concrete cavern systems for refuge, whose vestiges are still to be visited by the curious tourist at Paris and”

  The Shape of Things to Come

• “The slowly changing shadows waved on it from the heavy trees, were doleful in the last degree; the house was ill-placed, ill-built, ill-planned, and ill-fitted.”

  The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

• “Fingers: "Are you sure the ill-built tower doesn't tremble mightily at a butterfly's passage?”

  Alright...show of hands! Who HASN'T read Terry Pratchett, yet?

• “The men looked small, young, clumsy, and ill-built; uncomfortable in their shabby European clothes; and about the legs, especially, seemed exceedingly weak and ill-formed.”

  Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo

• “He who lands here first sees this miserable, narrow, dirty street, and this mass of ill-built, old, ruinous houses; and of course forms, at first sight, no very favourable idea of this beautiful and renowned city.”

  Travels in England in 1782

• “He had disregarded the ill-built cramped rooms behind it in which he would have to lurk and live, the relentless limitations of its dimensions, the inconvenience of an underground kitchen that must necessarily be the living-room in winter, the narrow yard behind giving upon the yard of the Royal Fishbourne Hotel, the tiresome sitting and waiting for custom, the restricted prospects of trade.”

  The History of Mr. Polly

• “Moabede, which consists partly of low and ill-built stone houses, and partly of huts constructed of brushwood; it is wholly inhabited by Bedouins, who have become settlers here, for the purpose of carrying on a traffic, principally in corn, dates, and cattle, between the town and their native tribes.”

  Travels in Arabia

• “Fez contains no less than seven hundred mosques, fifty of which are superb, and ornamented with fine columns of marble; there is, besides, a hundred or more of very small and ill-built mosques, or rather, houses of prayer.”

  Travels in Morocco

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