Meanings of hack writer in English

A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth-rate in Europe.

His task was often that of a hack writer; his spirit never.

I can't turn hack writer, and I must have something fixed to do.

Seems to have been a poor hack writer 'who threw away his life in handfuls.'

He served as literary editor and hack writer for several journals and finally died in poverty.

He was in turn apothecary's assistant, poor physician, proof-reader, usher in a "classical school," and hack writer.

Many of the tales unfortunately suffer from a hackneyed use of situations, materials, and ideas, suggestive of the hack writer.

Mother said that back when Martin Silenus was a big-name hack writer during the Web days, he had a multiworld house.

Richard Hutton, hack writer and "ghost," sat next to him at table twice a day, and proved a sympathetic neighbour.

Could no hack writer, without virtue or shame, be found to exaggerate the errors, already so dearly expiated, of a gentle and noble spirit?

KENRICK, William, a hack writer, who in the Monthly Review in 1765, attacked Johnson's Shakespeare with "a certain coarse smartness" (1725?-79)

Now the hack writers of opera books would no longer suffice him.

The hack writers of King James's time have been shoved aside.

Instead they paid hack writers to put their views into verse and printers to publish and distribute the results.

We talk about "literature" and we talk about " hack writers," implying that the reading that we do is of literature.

Children's books have been treated with disdain by adults, because many of the early ones were written by hack writers and printed sloppily.