NOUN
- a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions
How To Use hatchet job In A Sentence
- The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
- I hope I can produce a hatchet job soon. Times, Sunday Times
- Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatchet job on his latest novel.
- It's certainly not a one-sided hatchet job. The Sun
- The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
- It is breathless storytelling, but feels like a hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
- Anyway, it isn't going to be a hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
- Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light.
- Were the hatchet a less brutal tool, this gripping, succinct and lethal book would deserve the name of hatchet job. Times, Sunday Times
- His "killingly fair-minded and viciously funny" review of the Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Cunningham's latest book, By Nightfall, has won novelist and critic Adam Mars-Jones the inaugural Hatchet Job of the Year award. Review of The Hours author's latest book wins inaugural hatchet job award
