hackish

adjective3

1. •
   (informal) Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.

   • 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
2. •
   (informal) Characteristic of hackers.

   • hackish slang; a hackish sense of humor
3. •
   Characteristic of hacks, or inferior writers.