hackwork
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of hackwork
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Onah, rebounding nicely from the B-movie hackwork of last year’s “The Cloverfield Paradox,” neither embraces nor disguises the material’s stage foundations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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
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 has it always; at all times of his life; in the hackwork which made abortion of so much greater literature, and in his actually great literature, poems, novels, travels—what not.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
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