hackwork
Use Hackwork in a sentence
noun
writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
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| undistinguished literary work produced to order | |
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Hackwork
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
Example sentences
But the dialogue is hackwork and the effect is generally tedious.
He did, of course, engage in too much hackwork for his own good or his reputation.
It's about the thin line between hackwork and magic.
The little literary criticism then existing was lifeless-mere hackwork, subsidised by publishers to puff their own wares.
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