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
A work that we once erroneously believed to be good, because we were misguided, or taken in by a bad actor, is revealed to have been tainted all along with hackery and hidden self-justifications.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 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
The driver of the hackery put his head inside the leather curtain of the vehicle.
From In Times of Peril by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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