hackiness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hackiness (uncountable)
- The quality of being hacky.
- 1939 October, Louis Kuslam, “[---And Having Writ---] How do you like Stein’s cover?”, in [John Wood] Campbell, editor, Unknown, volume II, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Publications, Inc., page 101, column 2:
- The only criticism of “Death Time” is the extreme hackiness of the plot.
- 1950 July, Calvin Tho[ma]s Beck, “[Reader’s Page] The Eminent C.T.B.”, in Howard Browne, editor, Fantastic Adventures, volume 12, number 7, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 151, column 1:
- I could go on and comment on the following little classics, such as: “Isolationist”, “He Took It With Him”, “The Lunar Point of View”, “Call of Duty”, “Blueprint for Destruction”, all of which were highly enjoyable and without the taint of “hackiness” to stigmatize them for the Gripes Committee.
- 2012 May 24–30, Amy Diaz, “Reviews”, in Amy Diaz, editor, The Hippo, volume 12, number 21, Manchester, N.H.: HippoPress, page 80, column 3:
- Occasional moments of “hey, this feels like something” (a conversation between Nadal and Aladeen about why Yiddish words are so useful) are drowned out by big stretches of hackiness, like an extended scene where Aladeen (for no good reason, really, other than the lady-parts-related jokes) helps a woman deliver a baby.
- 2016 September 6, Alan Sepinwall, “[No-Doubt-About-It Classics] 30 Rock”, in Alan Sepinwall, Matt Zoller Seitz, TV (The Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time, New York, N.Y.: Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN, page 197, column 2:
- The fictionalized Peacock run by Jack and others was doing no better, cycling through bad ideas like MILF Island and Bitch Hunter, and while the show had great fun at the expense of the network suits, it had equal skepticism about the creative types, whether the hackiness of TGS’s writers or the way stars Tracy and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) were revealed to be erratic, emotionally needy sociopaths.