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flawless, impeccable, immaculate, perfect
speckless, spotless, stainless, taintless

a dump (coll, pej.)

a ramshackle (baufällig) hut

glistening, glittering

promise

to allure, to attract,
to entice so, to lure so
to bait, to bribe (bestechen, schmieren)

feasibility

crash, bust, fizzling, wash-out (also: washout)


bankrupt, broke, down and out, on the rocks, skint

decline, demise, downfall, doom, ruin, sinking

after all, in the end

crook (=criminal)
racketeer

back then,
at that time

necessity

to go down the drain
(in schlimme Umstände geraten)

struggle for survival

everywhere

abrupt, brusque, cliffy, cragged, craggy, gruff/y: person, jagged, precipitous, shortly

basting (ugs.)
beating
cudgel
floggings (eine Tracht Prügel: smacking, pounding, spanking, drubbing)
trouncing