Destartalado in english
Ramshackle
pronunciation: ræmʃækəl part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ræmʃækəl part of speech: adjective
In gestures
destartalado = decrepit ; rickety ; dilapidated ; ramshackle ; beat-up ; rattletrap.
Example: No bright new digital firm can do without at least some of the supposedly decrepit bureaucracy it so abhors in the old tweedy institutions it wants to replace.Example: Only the nomads travel by camel, other desert travellers have to depend on aged and rickety vehicles.Example: China's transport authorities plan to scrap dilapidated ships to enhance safety and improve the competitiveness of the industry.Example: The ramshackle village clings like a limpet to the cliffs.Example: The fact is that a beat-up guitar looks cooler than a pristine one, and getting it to look beat up just by playing it takes a really long time.Example: To recuperate, she took Lise and her brother to live in a rattletrap house on the beach for the summer.