hackwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hackwork
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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
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
It’s uninspired hackwork, and the frequent appearance of blue lens flares does not make this movie any more of a personal statement.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2013
Mr. Fox told her that "one hundred or one hundred and fifty pounds a year is as much as our most successful writers usually make"—success here meaning, of course, full employment in hackwork.
From Harriet Martineau by Florence Fenwick Miller
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