painted rust
when instead of fixing a rusty old thing, you cover it in paint because that’s cheaper than thinking
They painted the broken down street like it was brand new. It looked like someone tried to make it look good but failed.
The school took the rusted-out bus and gave it a coat of paint. It now looks like it's about to fall apart in three days.
The city painted the crumbling wall, and I said, 'It’s not going to hold up forever.' They said, 'We’ll worry about that later.'