kludgy
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 15
- Words With Friends
- 17
- Letters
- 6
/klʌd͡ʒi/
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/klʌd͡ʒi/ · /ˈkluːd͡ʒi/
Definition of kludgy
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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.”
“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.”
“[…] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.”
“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? Nope. All you've done is make your application harder to deploy and harder to manage.”
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Etymology
From kludge + -y.
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