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
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
In the 1960s, New York Times art critic John Canaday described Keane paintings as "tasteless hackwork," but that didn't stop the Keane legend from growing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2014
Nor, though we may regard the tasks as hackwork now, were they so regarded by Milton.
From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by Masson, David
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