Examples of hackwork in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web And so, at least for the moment, there has been some respite on the bestseller lists from the usual insider politics hackwork. — Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2020 Alan Smithee credits look like hackwork in comparison. — Graeme Mcmillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019 Its misfortunes are not difficult to explain: Unlike Life and Fate, Stalingrad was published in the Soviet Union under Stalin and gained a reputation as Stalinist hackwork. — Sophie Pinkham, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2019 His oeuvre is full of hackwork: The pulps commonly paid by the word and Howard was happy to deliver words in bulk, allowing quantity to overwhelm quality. — John J. Miller, National Review, 11 July 2019

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