A big payout for our loyal hackwork from the Gnomes of Zurich?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Check Yo’ Selfish Before You Wreck Yo’ Selfish] Reference

John Scalzi on media tie-ins: "The assumption that tie-in novels are all hackwork is just that, an assumption ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2009] Reference

It's the worst kind of hackwork and I would think most politicians would want to avoid it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is this the person you want to be listening to a year from now?] Reference

Same physical process as hackwork, as it turns out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference

No more hackwork, no more doing jobs to pay the bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

But season 3 was little more than hackwork, unfortunately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primeval Season 3 Finale: To Helen Back Again « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS] Reference

Her hackwork would get a C in any decent history department.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference

More Hitchens hackwork: Stop this man before he writes again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-09-11] Reference

Yes, a lot of it was hackwork but the good stuff was great stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dark World] Reference

That doesn't mean I grind out lowest common denominator hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

It reads like the sheerest hackwork and is riddled with sloppy errors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-09-27] Reference

As I said, it's not to my taste at all but I wouldn't call it hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRADE PUBLISHERS TO SHORT FICTION: DROP DEAD] Reference

You might respond that a lot of books, by these definitions, are hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book).] Reference

Similar shops made “tribal masks” and other patronising, hackwork kitsch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference

If I'm to make good on my escape bid from the world of hackwork, now's the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home again, naturally] Reference

I applied for and took the job because it would give me financial freedom from hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference

If they put up predictable hackwork with a partisan grasp of the facts, then they aren't.    From Wordnik.com.  [And the new NYT columnist is: Ross Douthat!] Reference

Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog: More Hitchens hackwork: Stop this man before he writes again!.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Hitchens hackwork: Stop this man before he writes again!] Reference

Symbolic Formulation is only derivative hackwork in the absence of any real creative activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-12-01] Reference

The results are hackwork, space filler, a way of hiding from the realities of the here and now.    From Wordnik.com.  [[em]Observer[/em] Softball Report: What If 9-0 Never Happened?] Reference

Everything Kennedy says here seems epoch making; in comparison, Blair's words sound like hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2003-07-20] Reference

We find a flat together in the Stack vertical village, and I pay for it with some scripting hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

A rhetorical omnibus making all local stops, the speech conveys a year's worth of departmental hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

Probably Hawks thought of Faulkner because he knew him, liked him, and knew he could do reliable hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOLLYWOOD] Reference

For that matter, I never stayed with the comic book after Ditko left and was replaced by Romita's hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spiderman 3] Reference

But the therapy field suffers because it is too easy for fast-talking charlatans to hang up a shingle and do hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curing Teh Gayz — In Just Three Weeks! « Whatever] Reference

The subtraction does not turn a good work into hackwork; it turns a hysterical, half-mad masterpiece into a sound, sane book.    From Wordnik.com.  [readersguide Diary Entry] Reference

It's hackwork and cash is not inspiration enough - at least for me - when it comes to grinding out tens of thousands of words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference

Right now, it's really waiting for it to ripen, so I can write something I can be proud of instead of barely-competent hackwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [link salad, narcissistic edition....] Reference

This consumes half the working week and sometimes more, but provides financial freedom from having to do hackwork to pay the bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009: first six months progress report] Reference

But the Chiang cover is undistinguished hackwork, and if it isn't stock art which Tor uses a fair amount of the time, it looks like it.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRADE PUBLISHERS TO SHORT FICTION: DROP DEAD] Reference

Emperor, but that was the one piece of hackwork of his career.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Magic Door] Reference

But much of his labour was heavy hackwork of a very uninteresting character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

Nor, though we may regard the tasks as hackwork now, were they so regarded by Milton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference

Here, surely, were three huge enough tasks of sheer hackwork hung round the neck of a poet!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference