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Definition of Hack writer
1. Noun. A mediocre and disdained writer.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hack Writer
Literary usage of Hack writer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Adventures of Peg Woffington: With Pictures of the Period in by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy (1887)
"Goldsmith in London—Physician, Usher, and Hack-Writer—The 'Monthly Review'—In
Green Court Arbour — Beginning the World at Thirty-One—Letters to His Friends ..."
2. Practical Authorship: A Work Designed to Afford Writers an Insight Into by James Knapp Reeve (1910)
"It is quite possible that this is an exceptional hack-writer. ... An unpleasant
feature of the profession of the hack-writer is that it is utterly ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Dryden, like Leasing, was a hack writer, and was proud, as an honest man lias a
right to be, of being able to get his bread by his brains. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"The hack writer, as he is called, is sometimes mentioned in a deprecatory tone
as if he were a useless and not quite respectable character. ..."
5. Collectanea Thomas Carlyle, 1821-1855 by Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Arthur Jones (1903)
"A man with a deathless purpose; him Carlyle the hack-writer could revere, ...
Carlyle had made his debut; he was, to be sure, still a hack-writer, ..."
6. Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon by James Spedding (1881)
"... upon some " hack-writer without virtue or shame." As if a " hack-writer without
virtue or shame " were a fit person to draw up an historical document; ..."
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