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
An initially clever exercise winds up feeling like the wrong kind of hackwork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2018
Creative disagreement can lead to productive tension, provided that the artists — or, in this case, the engineers — can’t resign themselves to turning out hackwork.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2016
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
He who was meditating the erection of an enduring creation, such as the world "would not willingly let die," was content to occupy himself with the most ephemeral of all hackwork.
From Milton by Mark Pattison
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