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[edit]kludgy (comparative kludgier, superlative kludgiest)
- (colloquial) Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.
- This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.
- 2006, Christian Gross, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, Apress, →ISBN, page 174:
- What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function
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- 2016 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Health Reform Realities”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- 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.
- 2021, Matthew A. Titmus, Cloud Native Go, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN:
- 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.