Meaning of kludgily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a kludgy manner.

Examples

“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.”

“All of the major vendors have clearly made a heavy commitment toward workstations, both autonomous and networked, either elegantly or kludgily to their other product offerings.”

“When Windows Sources reviewer Lori Grunin compares Illustrator to Macromedia’s FreeHand (see review Feb. 97, p. 78), she notes that “Illustrator hasn’t caught up yet; for instance, it still doesn’t offer live blends. But FreeHand’s tools come as kludgily tacked-on Xtras, and CorelDRAW’s tools [see review Jan. 97, p. 11] lack FreeHand’s and Illustrator’s fluid path handling.””

“Most other large airports are, for various reasons, hard to use or to like. They have made themselves into shopping malls with long, banal corridors to and from the gates. They have expanded without any big idea or vision, kludgily, over time, making themselves more and more inelegant and incoherent.”

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