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
“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
The same incentive exists for all sorts of hackery.
From Slate
The Brit takes on corruption, desperation and hackery with impeccable timing and a feather-light coup de grâce.
From Los Angeles Times
Over the years, through various ups and downs, setbacks and rebounds, his idiosyncratic mix of genius and hackery has become a reliably unreliable fixture of the mainstream movie landscape — a source of amusement, intentional and otherwise, and occasionally of honest surprise and excitement.
From Los Angeles Times
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