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kludgily

kludgily adverb: in a kludgy manner.

Adverb

kludgily (comparative more kludgily, superlative most kludgily)

  1. In a kludgy manner.
    • We have no good theory of synchronization (primitives for this were included in [SCHEME] primarily to show that it could be done, however kludgily), and so have defined no replacement for evaluate!uninterruptibly.1978 January, Guy Lewis Steele Jr., Gerald Jay Sussman, “evaluate!uninterruptibly Has Disappeared”, in The Revised Report on SCHEME: A Dialect of LISP (AI Memo No. 452), Cambridge, Mass....
    • All of the major vendors have clearly made a heavy commitment toward workstations, both autonomous and networked, either elegantly or kludgily to their other product offerings.1984, Stuart Madnick, quotee, Business Computer Systems, volume 3, Boston, Mass.: Cahners Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60, column 1

Examples of kludgily in a sentence

  • But FreeHand’s tools come as kludgily tacked-on Xtras, and CorelDRAW’s tools [see review Jan. 97, p. 11] lack FreeHand’s and Illustrator’s fluid path handling.”1997, “Adobe Illustrator 7.0”, in Software and CD-ROM Reviews On File, volume 13, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 336...
  • They have expanded without any big idea or vision, kludgily, over time, making themselves more and more inelegant and incoherent.2008, Vanity Fair, volume 50, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 149, column 1:

Forms of kludgily

comparativemore kludgily
superlativemost kludgily
alternative formklugily

Origin of kludgily

From kludgey /kludgy + -ly.

Questions about kludgily

What does kludgily mean?
Kludgily means in a kludgy manner.
How do you use kludgily in a sentence?
But FreeHand’s tools come as kludgily tacked-on Xtras, and CorelDRAW’s tools [see review Jan. 97, p. 11] lack FreeHand’s and Illustrator’s fluid path handling.”
What part of speech is kludgily?
Kludgily is an adverb.

Words near kludgily in the dictionary

  1. kludgeyness
  2. kludgie
  3. kludgier
  4. kludgies
  5. kludgiest
  6. kludgily
  7. kludginess
  8. kludging
  9. kludging out
  10. kludgy
  11. Kluesner

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