hackery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It’s where Di as a child developed her shimmering photorealistic style, and where the Harlan clan pursued property development when art didn’t quite pan out or turned into hackery.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2025
Lucien’s love for her is the only pure thing about him — that and the faith in literature that occasionally flickers amid the hackery.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
Mention of this critic bobs to the surface again and again as he rails at her hackery.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2021
What should we make of Joaquin Phoenix’s performance, and is the film’s nontraditional approach to the supervillain origin story genius, hackery, or a mix of the two?
From Slate • Oct. 9, 2019
A commissariat cart, a common country hackery, loaded with biscuits, got upset, and its wheel broke just as we were moving it on to the road.
From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William
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