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
“It’s below me to even dignify this hatchet job with a response.”
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 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
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
Also, unlike my Pathfinder hatchet job, I had the full schematics of the drill.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
