HATCHET JOB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hatchet job mean? 

• HATCHET JOB (noun)
  The noun HATCHET JOB has 1 sense:

1. a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

  Familiarity information: HATCHET JOB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HATCHET JOB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

calumniation; calumny; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement

Hypernyms ("hatchet job" is a kind of...):

depreciation; derogation; disparagement (a communication that belittles somebody or something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hatchet job"):

assassination; blackwash; character assassination (an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation)

malignment; smear; vilification (slanderous defamation)

libel (a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person)

slander (words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another)

name calling; names (verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument)

epithet; name (a defamatory or abusive word or phrase)