tacked-on

In comparison, the guerilla campaign waged by the Brown clan in Kansas and the attack on Harpers Ferry seem almost tacked-on, the inherent dramatic action of both de-emphasized and deflected, as if the last 200 pages had to be appended in order to certifyCloudsplitter as a proper "historical" novel.

Historical Fiction 2010

It's all merely stultifying until a tacked-on and manipulative subplot regarding the 9/11 terror attacks makes "Luminarium" both long-winded and tasteless—not exactly the combination you want from a would-be visionary novelist.

Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth' Sam Sacks 2011

Her hijinx on campus feels like a tacked-on excuse to keep a young, pretty blond girl on the show.

Archive 2009-10-01 2009

In comparison, the guerilla campaign waged by the Brown clan in Kansas and the attack on Harpers Ferry seem almost tacked-on, the inherent dramatic action of both de-emphasized and deflected, as if the last 200 pages had to be appended in order to certifyCloudsplitter as a proper "historical" novel.

August 2009 2009

Darwinian evolution entails neither a 'grim vision', nor, as Darwin himself suggested, a type of grandeur; these are extra-theoretical valuations that are tacked-on, depending upon the subjective personality of the individual.

Archive 2009-01-01 Gordon McCabe 2009

Her hijinx on campus feels like a tacked-on excuse to keep a young, pretty blond girl on the show.

The Mondays: There Goes My "Heroes" 2009

Huffington Post UK: the British stuff seems tacked-on and perfunctory

Huffington's first Post in Britain fails to rally the troops 2011

But when so much of the site is written by Americans for Americans, the British stuff seems tacked-on and perfunctory.

Huffington's first Post in Britain fails to rally the troops 2011

But it kept stooping to horror-film clichés, including a dumb, tacked-on final scene to remind you it really was a scary movie.

"Other hands than it should pass through..." stsisyphus 2009

There was a corrugated metal roof above a clapboard exterior with an unfinished stonework path out front and a tacked-on deck jutting from one side.

Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo 2010