hackwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hackwork
Example Sentences
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Ma isn’t a bad movie, and it’s sure as hell not trying to be a good one, but it scratches a particular itch that neither noble failures nor cranked-out hackwork can touch.
From Slate • May 29, 2019
The play being performed will come to be known as "Romeo and Juliet" once Will, infused with love and longing, chucks the idea of "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," choosing art over contrived hackwork.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2018
This is largely how today’s culture has chosen to remember Welles: as a pompous wreck, a man who peaked early and then devolved into hackwork and bloated fiascos.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015
The Pat Hobby stories lack Fitzgerald’s characteristic lyricism, and perhaps for that might be read as mercenary or hackwork; but what they lack in beauty, they make up for in wit and pathos.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2013
He gained a living, however, by hackwork of various descriptions, and was in slightly better circumstances than he allowed to appear.
From The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance by Partridge, Bernard
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