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
Later, the scene is recut as a hatchet job on social media that leads to Tár’s downfall.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2023
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
Allen, now 85, and Previn, 50, issued a joint statement last week accusing the documentarians of “surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2021
“I guess you saw that hatchet job in the paper,” I say.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
