literary hack

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literary hack Meaning of "literary hack"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a mediocre and disdained writer

Synonym(s)

hack writer

Usage(s):

  1. One day a sure-enough snake turned up in the plausible person of Henri Gauthier-Villars, a 34-year-old literary hack who married her and then shut her up in his Paris garret.
  2. Widmerpool is backing Nick's magazine and its editor, a furtive, bibulous literary hack known in the trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw.
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