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klugily

klugily is the alternative form of kludgily.

Meaning of kludgily

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....

Forms of klugily

comparativemore klugily
superlativemost klugily

Origin of klugily

From klugey /klugy + -ly.

Questions about klugily

What is klugily the alternative form of?
Klugily is the alternative form of kludgily.

Words near klugily in the dictionary

  1. kluggy
  2. Klugh
  3. Klughs
  4. klugier
  5. klugiest
  6. klugily
  7. kluginess
  8. kluging
  9. Klugman
  10. Klugmann
  11. Klugs

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