Hackwork

Word HACKWORK
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Definitions and meanings of "Hackwork"

What do we mean by hackwork?

Commissioned work, such as writing or acting, done usually by formula and in conformance with commercial standards. noun

Tedious, monotonous, or uninteresting work of any kind. noun

Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula. noun

Professional work done according to formula noun

Work, usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or done to a formula.

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The word "hackwork" in example sentences

John Scalzi on media tie-ins: "The assumption that tie-in novels are all hackwork is just that, an assumption ..." ❋ Unknown (2009)

A big payout for our loyal hackwork from the Gnomes of Zurich? ❋ Unknown (2007)

We accept So Fuck into the club, that means we let in hackwork. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)

But while London was guilty of occasional "hackwork," the Smoke Bellew stories are not in that category. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's the worst kind of hackwork and I would think most politicians would want to avoid it. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

After years of critically well- received books that I am proud of, with income bolstered by (honest) "hackwork", I find myself no longer able to make enough (any?) ❋ Unknown (2006)

At last, when a thousand feet have trodden upon a thing of inestimable price, there comes along a newspaper man, doing the driest kind of hackwork, bound to a drudgery as stale and dreary as any in life, and he sees what no man has ever seen before him, though it has been plain in view for years and years. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)

We note, therefore, a few plain facts: that he was the son of a poor bookseller; that despite poverty and disease he obtained his classic education; that at twenty-six he came to London, and, after an experience with patrons, rebelled against them; that he did every kind of hackwork to earn his bread honestly, living in the very cellar of Grub ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

Often, one sees the work of a comic book creator dismissed as "hackwork," done by someone who clearly didn't care and just slopped it out as rapidly as possible to get the check. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The segregation of these novels out as fundamentally not proper novels but as a debased form of fiction, characterised as “feminine” and dismissed as commercial hackwork, “redolent of the manufactory and the shop”, binds a prescriptivist quality aesthetic to a deeply misogynist discourse of hysteria. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

But we will not be intimidated by the elaborate undercover hackwork of vindictive political point-scorers who are determined to see NPR fail. ❋ Bill Moyers (2011)

Unaccountably she rejected Fragonard's murals in favor of some by a contemporary which can only strike us as hackwork -- I had never seen a picture of them before. ❋ Howard Kissel (2011)

The problem is that these marketing categories were created for the express purpose of selling crummy hackwork by the truckload – and readers happily went along. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Thompson was known at all when he died, it was for his contribution to the script of Stanley Kubrick's first film, "The Killing," or for his hackwork on countless TV shows and "novelizations" of series such as "Ironside." ❋ Unknown (2010)

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