"kludgy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "This is kind of a kludgy solution, but it will work for now.",
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          "ref": "2006, Christian Gross, Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, Apress, page 174",
          "text": "What is still kludgy is how the data is gathered and passed to the function InjectHTML.",
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          "ref": "2016 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Health Reform Realities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2018 January 21, Peter Suderman, “The Shutdown Shows the Twisted Rules of a Broken Congress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "[…] It’s kludgy language to describe a kludgy process.",
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          "ref": "2021, Matthew A. Titmus, Cloud Native Go, O'Reilly Media",
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