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Webster 1913 Edition

(hăk′ẽr-y̆)

Noun.

[Hind.

chhakrā

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks.

[Bengal]

Malcom.

hackery ‎(plural hackeries)

hack +‎ -ery, in sense 1 related to hack ‎(“a bad writer”).

hackery

(slang, chiefly pejorative) Advocacy of a position when motivated by political allegiance, public relations interests, or for other reasons considered crass compared to personal conviction.
(slang, computing) The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).
- 2012, Seymour Bosworth, ‎M. E. Kabay, ‎Eric Whyne, Computer Security Handbook (page 57)
  All without any of the subterfuge and hackery required to do it with Java.