kludgy

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
17
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/klʌd͡ʒi/
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/klʌd͡ʒi/ · /ˈkluːd͡ʒi/

Definition of kludgy

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (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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