kludgy

Definition

Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.

Etymology

From kludge + -y.

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Even if you imagine a political earthquake that eliminated the power of the insurance industry and objections to higher taxes, you’d still have to protect the interests of workers with better-than-average coverage, so that in practice single-payer, American style, would be almost as kludgy as Obamacare."

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