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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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.hatchet jobhatchet 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
hatchet job n (fam) → stroncatura


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Appearing on the newspaper's editorial page (hardly an inconsequential bit of space), Cohen's hatchet job insists that the Guide is "historically wrong," "full of dubious assertions," and replete with "ideologically loaded" arguments.
He was right to call Kandell and the Times on what they did, but in what way does his hatchet job on SITE Santa Fe raise the level of discourse above comparable snideness or, rather, lower the standards of criticism in Artforum's pages to any lesser degree?
Financing the ad is none other than a Houston developer and major Republican contributor named Bob Perry, who coughed up a hundred grand for this hatchet job.
 
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