Adverb
Through the collaborative efforts of multiple contributors, as a team or committee assigned to accomplish a goal; especially as known for protracted proceedings, a lack of responsiveness, or undesired results.
(figuratively, sometimes humorous) With any of the results cynically attributed to committee projects, e.g. unnecessary complexity, inconsistency, logical flaws, lack of a unifying vision, banality, lack of style or character, etc.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
Writing workshops result in poetry by committee.
A camel is a horse designed by committee. Alec Issigonis
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby
One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee. Robyn Hitchcock
Television is art by committee...I'm lucky to have worked on some really interesting shows, but in film, you're there to fulfill the director's vision. If you get to work with great directors, you become a vehicle for that work. Raúl Castillo
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices. Amy Sherman-Palladino
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee. Rob Zombie