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Meaning of kludgy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
klʌd͡ʒi

Definitions

Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant.

colloquial

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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