A mediocre and disdained writer.
1A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth-rate in Europe.
2His task was often that of a hack writer; his spirit never.
3I can't turn hack writer, and I must have something fixed to do.
4Seems to have been a poor hack writer 'who threw away his life in handfuls.'
5He served as literary editor and hack writer for several journals and finally died in poverty.
6He was in turn apothecary's assistant, poor physician, proof-reader, usher in a "classical school," and hack writer.
7Many of the tales unfortunately suffer from a hackneyed use of situations, materials, and ideas, suggestive of the hack writer.
8Mother said that back when Martin Silenus was a big-name hack writer during the Web days, he had a multiworld house.
9Richard Hutton, hack writer and "ghost," sat next to him at table twice a day, and proved a sympathetic neighbour.
10Could no hack writer, without virtue or shame, be found to exaggerate the errors, already so dearly expiated, of a gentle and noble spirit?
11KENRICK, William, a hack writer, who in the Monthly Review in 1765, attacked Johnson's Shakespeare with "a certain coarse smartness" (1725?-79)
12Now the hack writers of opera books would no longer suffice him.
13The hack writers of King James's time have been shoved aside.
14Instead they paid hack writers to put their views into verse and printers to publish and distribute the results.
15We talk about "literature" and we talk about " hack writers," implying that the reading that we do is of literature.
16Children's books have been treated with disdain by adults, because many of the early ones were written by hack writers and printed sloppily.
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