hatchet job

hatchet job

n. Informal

A severe criticism or malicious verbal attack meant to ruin someone's reputation.

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hatchet job

n

informal a malicious or devastating verbal or written attack

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hatch′et job`

n.

a maliciously destructive critique or verbal attack.

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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 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

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Translations

critica ostilestroncatura

hatchet job

n (fam) → stroncatura

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