Definition of "jerry-builder" []

• A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction. (noun)

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• "It must be said for painters that they do not spoil a place as other visitors so often do; in fact, all change -- modernising, restoring, destroying -- is opposed to their sense of fitness; they are champions of the picturesque and sworn foes of the jerry-builder."
• "The jerry-builder, who just throws his houses together, makes atonement for the flimsy structure by putting in"
• "A jerry-builder whose houses have been condemned writes anonymously and becomes the"