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hatchet job

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hatchet job
n. Slang
A crude or ruthless effort usually ending in destruction: did a hatchet job on the mayor's reputation.

hatchet job
n
Informal a malicious or devastating verbal or written attack
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Noun1.hatchet job - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actionshatchet job - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
derogation, disparagement, depreciation - a communication that belittles somebody or something
assassination, blackwash, character assassination - an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation
malignment, smear, vilification - slanderous defamation
libel - a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
slander - words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another
name calling, names - verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument; "sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me"
epithet, name - a defamatory or abusive word or phrase
Translations
hatchet job n (fam) → stroncatura


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Does anyone else think the attempted hatchet job on Mr Brown may have backfired?
And the SEA and its members are pretty ticked off about what they view as a PR hatchet job that made them seem like the perpetrators of a senseless crime when all along they may actually have been the victims.
It's a health insurance company hatchet job, plain and simple.
 
 
 
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