Mean little jerry-built houses.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He had run up a jerry-built tenement house in its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flush: a biography] Reference

The witty, tough design looks both jerry-built and assured.    From Wordnik.com.  [A SENSE OF PLACE] Reference

On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolutionary Romanticism] Reference

I use a kind of jury-rigged pressing system jerry-built/jury-rigged?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

"Miles of jerry-built nowhere," sniffed the art critic Robert Hughes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skyline Sculptor] Reference

The jerry-built warheads might not even survive the stress of launching.    From Wordnik.com.  ['We'll Win, But...'] Reference

'It shouldn't be difficult to bore a hole through this jerry-built jungle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Funeral In Berlin]

Even if you mean "jerry-built," it still has nothing to do with Germans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #139 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

They couldn't afford good equipment, or anything not stolen or jerry-built.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Lexington-Concord on May 10th, 1775, is a kind of a jerry-built institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence] Reference

Perhaps the house was jerry-built, but equally probably he was exaggerating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

Once Terra is broken, Merseia will make short work of your jerry-built empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Agent Of The Terran Empire]

In time, the soldierly rows of homes dissolve into a chaotic, jerry-built jumble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suffocating In The Slums] Reference

Today's machines are jerry-built with industrial equipment from other industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strawberry Jam Forever] Reference

"There is good money here," he says, showing off his range of jerry-built weaponry.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

It spilled on the Domrath's autumnal huts, their jerry-built frames already collapsing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

And the Capodagli project for the jerry-built East Third/Richmond 'redevelopment' area?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference

It's hard to unseat incumbents in this jerry-built and gerrymandered system, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hullabaloo] Reference

It was one of those dreadful jerry-built houses which, while they are still new, look old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

It also adds to their capacity to find errors where we as writers have jerry-built our worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transcript: Settings-The Medieval World « Coyote Con] Reference

He climbs the hilly, unpaved roads lined with jerry-built houses, often made of plywood scraps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tell me about Rosarita Beach] Reference

No, he told friends that he realized that this whole jerry-built structure was going to collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

A jerry-built complicated package only makes everyone nervous that the whole contraption won't hold up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert L. Borosage: Can't Get There from Here] Reference

The givens: our country over decades has jerry-built a health care "system" that is unfair and inefficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Graham: The Health Care We Deserve] Reference

General Headquarters had been established in a house near by, a middle-class, flamboyant, jerry-built affair.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference

Such order and harmony exist only in worlds of our own creation, not in the jerry-built edifice of the demiurge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Poems of Ovid] Reference

With his wife's encouragement, he and his family then holed up in their jerry-built cabin on Ruby Ridge for nearly 18 months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Echoes Of Ruby Ridge] Reference

Back then Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was scrambling to find coalition partners to bolster his own jerry-built party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistan’s New Prime Minister?] Reference

Students expressed their hostility with jerry-built interventions, and in 1969 a studio fire of mysterious origin finished the job.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beauty in Brutalism, Restored and Updated] Reference

The Adams family lived in what he calls "our miserable little slum room" in "another jerry-built dumping ground for many young families.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Hari: Terrorist or Peace-Maker? An Exclusive Interview with Gerry Adams, Former Head of the I.R.A.] Reference

Why shouldn't creeds totter when they are jerry-built creeds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Simian World] Reference

I should say it was built on contract, and jerry-built at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Windows] Reference

The house was new but jerry-built, reeked of drains, and swarmed with vermin.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Paris to New York by Land] Reference

The Perkinses went at the end of last week into a jerry-built villa up on land.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Poor Man's House] Reference