What is "hackwork"

Usage examples of "hackwork".

It was punishment for some misdemeanor or other, and Gullit had sent them both to Gamber Hench to do his hackwork for a month.

No panthers or skulls, no dragons or nudes, these tattoos offered an unexpected jungle of pure design, spirals and knots, mazes and mandalas, interwoven and overlapped in a deliberate thwarting of the desire for representation, this prime example of tribal Hackwork spoke to an inner, more private eye.

Furnishing hotel interiors was vulgar hackwork unbefitting a real artist, but a real artist had to make a living, and the commonplaceness of such commissions could always be slightly offset by such flourishes of unorthodoxy as having it written into every contract that one suite of rooms should be fitted with green carnations instead of the more fashionable roses and amaranths and should always be available for his exclusive use.

Yes, it was exactly like those fairy forests that cost fairy-book knights so much hackwork with their two-handed swords.

DNA surgery to improve disease resistance: drift timing dated the hackwork at two thousand years Before Present.

Half a dozen flying machines were doing hackwork at the thousand-foot level, looking like little black swallows against the green background.

In recent months I had, for the first time, lowered myself to the hackwork of popular fiction writing, churning out made-to-order adventure stories for pulp magazines.

They want to be free to continue to reinvent American culture in their own image, finding art forms where back home we saw only hackwork and actresses where we saw only bimbos.

By now it was clear that Calcifer did all the strong magic in the castle and Michael did all the hackwork, while Howl gadded off catching girls and exploiting the other two just as Fanny had exploited her.

Lots of hackwork being published, but it's either big, specialized crap on assignment or through packagers, or it's genre stuff done by stable hacks.