hackery
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The Brit takes on corruption, desperation and hackery with impeccable timing and a feather-light coup de grâce.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
That hasn’t stopped some owners using a bit of hackery to test Starlink on speeding cars — with varied success.
From The Verge • May 5, 2022
A work that we once erroneously believed to be good, because we were misguided, or taken in by a bad actor, is revealed to have been tainted all along with hackery and hidden self-justifications.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2022
Mention of this critic bobs to the surface again and again as he rails at her hackery.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2021
A small hackery, or cart, belonging to some of the followers of the camp, fell down a precipice upwards of eighty yards deep, the sides of which were studded with trees of an enormous size.
From Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment by Shipp, John
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