ill-manufactured

Updated: May 11, 2025

By the way, that first watch of Pen's was a showy ill-manufactured piece: it never went well from the beginning, and was always getting out of order. And after putting it aside into a drawer and forgetting it for some time, he swapped it finally away for a more useful time-keeper. Pen felt himself to be ever so many years older since yesterday. There was no mistake about it now.

William Makepeace Thackeray - The History of Pendennis