hatchet job
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noun
a maliciously destructive critique or act: The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
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| hatchet job | |
| —n | |
| informal a malicious or devastating verbal or written attack | |
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Hatchet job
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Example sentences
What this book is, then, is a rather dull hatchet job.
It may be a hatchet job, we'll see, or his preview may simply reflect his view based on the research he has done to date.
The piece was a hatchet job, designed to inspire the uniformed.
It is not often that one observes the birth of a neo-con hatchet job.
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