Definition of "hackish" [hackish]

• Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers. (adjective)
• Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds. (adjective)

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• "Microsoft is perfectly happy, while proclaiming openness and interoperability, to find a company in dire financial straits and then threaten it with expensive legal action over what any self-respecting programmer would identify as a hackish kludge - something that advances the art of computer software not one bit."
• "However, even at his most "hackish" style Kuttner manages to be immensely entertaining."
• "In this "hackish" hit piece on capitalism, they blamed the great depression and the current financial crisis on republicans and deregulation."