hackish

Adjective

1. Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.
2. Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
   • Our site, ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix, was recently subjected to incredibly high loads caused by the interaction of the various uucp software, two receiving sites, and news transmission. Fortunately we're out of that...
   • 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. - 2003, Erik T Ray, Learning XML:
   • The first two hacks in this chapter provide, well, hackish solutions to that conundrum. - 2006, Bruce Perry, Ajax hacks:
3. Characteristic of hackers.
   • hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor