What is another word for hackwork?

Pronunciation: [hˈakwɜːk] (IPA)

Hackwork refers to work that is done poorly or without any creativity, typically done for quick financial gain. There are several synonyms for the word hackwork, including shoddy work, sloppy work, amateurish work, and substandard work. Other synonyms for hackwork include paltry work, drudgery, low-quality work, and mediocre work. All of these words convey the idea that the work being done lacks quality, professionalism, and creativity. While the word hackwork might be used to describe any type of work that is poorly executed, it is often used to describe writing or other creative endeavors that lack originality or depth.

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Usage examples for Hackwork

Mr. Fox told her that "one hundred or one hundred and fifty pounds a year is as much as our most successful writers usually make"-success here meaning, of course, full employment in hackwork.
"Harriet Martineau"
Florence Fenwick Miller
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.
"My Contemporaries In Fiction"
David Christie Murray
Half-a- dozen flying machines were doing hackwork at the thousand-foot level, looking like little black swallows against the green background.
"Danger! and Other Stories"
Arthur Conan Doyle

Famous quotes with Hackwork

  • I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
    John Milius

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