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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.

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hatchet job

Noun

Informal a malicious verbal or written attack

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

hatchet job - a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions calumniation, calumny, defamation, traducement, obloquy 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 (col) → varapalo

hatchet job n (inf) → démolissage m

hatchet job (inf) adj to do a hatchet job on sb → jdn fertigmachen

hatchet job n (col) → attacco spietato;

to do a hatchet job on sb → fare a pezzi qn