hackery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Brit takes on corruption, desperation and hackery with impeccable timing and a feather-light coup de grâce.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
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
That hasn’t stopped some owners using a bit of hackery to test Starlink on speeding cars — with varied success.
From The Verge • May 5, 2022
From @gb4bedfordfalls: She’s gauging it on your obvious hackery puff piece.
From Salon • Nov. 27, 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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