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What is the adjective for hacky?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb hack which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

hacky
  1. Like a hack; amateurish.
  2. (Geordie) Filthy or totally dirty.
  3. (computing) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
  4. (colloquial) Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacking.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “It's nice to see someone else struggle with the hacky css and obvious formatting problems.”
      “Secretly, I'd always wanted to write an entire set of hacky jokes from a baby's perspective.”
      “It eschews cheesy reenactments with hacky actors overemoting, unlike too many similar shows.”
hackish
  1. Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
  2. (computing) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
  3. (computing) Characteristic of hackers.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “After getting locked out of his apartment, John used a series of hackish techniques to break in by picking the lock with a hairpin and shimmying through the window.”
      “The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum.”
      “A hackish solution is to use code switching, a technique of replacing a byte with a sequence of bytes headed by a special control character.”
hackable
  1. (computing) That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
  2. That lends itself to hacking (technical tinkering and modification); moddable.
hackerish
  1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (technically skilled computer enthusiast).
  2. (computing) Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).
  3. Examples:
    1. “There is a rich, hackerish tradition in the computer world of making any new computer or video game system emulate those that came before it.”
      “The hackerish look of dot-matrix fonts on screens and printers has partially prevented full acceptance of computers as tools for a literate public.”
hackproof
  1. Secure from hackers; impossible to hack into.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He's going to feel like he got hit by a train. Maybe he'll even have a full-fledged nervous breakdown. Hackproof, he used to call his system.”
hacking
  1. Short and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “After running a marathon, his hacking cough indicated the toll it had taken on his lungs.”
hackerproof
  1. Secure from hackers.
hacktivistic
  1. of, or related to hacktivism
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