hatchet job
Example Sentences
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The groundbreaking first film - Ricky Gervais's favourite - focused on Tap's disastrous US tour, and the band still brand DiBergi's treatment as "a hatchet job".
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
Though she was fully aware of the potential controversy of her charges, she never intended for her book to be the hatchet job that many reviewers believed it to be.
From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2022
Roth then flirted with the notion of appointing writer and publisher James Atlas for the project but veered away when he read what he considered to be Atlas’s hatchet job on Saul Bellow.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021
The filmmakers behind HBO’s explosive documentary "Allen v. Farrow" have welcomed the filmmaker to share his side of the story after a spokesperson called the series a "hatchet job."
From Fox News • Mar. 15, 2021
“I guess you saw that hatchet job in the paper,” I say.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
