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  • adverb In a hackish manner.

Etymologies

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hackish +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • But here you have DB attacking someone else for distorting history, implying that they are somehow disingenuous hacks, when in fact it is DB himself that is hackishly choosing an intellectually corrupt definition of progressive and using it to attack others.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism 2010

  • But here you have DB attacking someone else for distorting history, implying that they are somehow disingenuous hacks, when in fact it is DB himself that is hackishly choosing an intellectually corrupt definition of progressive and using it to attack others.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism 2010

  • Like any other story element or extant concept, they can be used hackishly; this doesn't mean that they are themselves hackish.

    The concept of Rogues’ Galleries | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • What can make the New Year more hackishly awesome than a spanking fresh new iPhone unlock?

    Daring Fireball 2009

  • It seems that if I use the following it works, albeit quite hackishly (it displays tab 1 for a split second then goes to the proper tab):

    Discussions: Message List - root 2008

  • I’ve never seen her write anything that’s not as hackishly hackish as all the other right-wing morons out there who like to propagate bullshit, and yet folks like Matt still bother taking her to task and trying to refute her claims.

    Matthew Yglesias » Health Care Paranoia 2010

  • I’d though Al had lost a step, but that has got to be one of the most hackishly shamelessly stupid things I’ve ever read in my life.

    Matthew Yglesias » Contemptible 2009

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