kludgy

/klʌd͡ʒi/

kludgy adjective: sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.

Adjective

kludgy (comparative kludgier, superlative kludgiest)

(colloquial) Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
- This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.
- What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML.2006, Christian Gross, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, Apress, →ISBN, page 174

[…] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.2018 January 21, Peter Suderman, “The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
All you'd need to do is pour your kludgy old application into a container and run it in Kubernetes, and you're cloud native now, right?2021, Matthew A. Titmus, Cloud Native Go, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:

From kludge + -y.

What does kludgy mean?: Kludgy means sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
How do you use kludgy in a sentence?: […] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.
What part of speech is kludgy?: Kludgy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce kludgy?: Kludgy is pronounced /klʌd͡ʒi/.

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