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hatchet job

noun as in malicious verbal attack

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This is not a hatchet job, and it certainly could have been.

A wonderful counterblast in The Times today to yesterday's extraordinary hatchet job on Cressida Bonas in the Mail.

The hatchet job quickly went viral, with the twitterverse agreeing that it was terribly funny and horrendously mean.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hatchet job, such as: ax job, calumniation, defamation, dismantlement, poison-pen letter, and unmaking.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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