"kludgy" meaning in English

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          "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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          "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",
          "text": "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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        "Sloppy, hasty, shoddy, or inelegant."
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