hackery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“The You You Are” is self-help hackery rife with fool’s gold like, “A society with festering workers cannot flourish, just as a man with rotting toes cannot skip” encrusting bumper sticker calls for rebellion.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2025
The same incentive exists for all sorts of hackery.
From Slate • Jun. 12, 2024
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
There’s an incredible amount of behind-the-scenes hackery that goes into making the social media posts you see on a regular basis.
From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018
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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