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hatchet job Definitions and Synonyms

noun countable informal

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singular	hatchet job
plural	hatchet jobs

1
a very strong and unfair criticism, especially in the form of a newspaper article
They did quite a hatchet job on the District Attorney in yesterday’s paper.
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