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
Which doesn’t mean “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” is a hatchet job.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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
“I wasn’t going to do a hatchet job or a hit piece on Donald Trump. I wanted to understand who these people were,” he says.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2022
“I guess you saw that hatchet job in the paper,” I say.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
