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单词 hatchet jobs
释义

hatchet job

noun

: a forceful or malicious verbal attack

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web That was quite the hatchet job Matt Brennan did on Ellen DeGeneres. Los Angeles Times, 27 May 2022 And yet, having said all that, the Grassley report has the appearance of a partisan hatchet job on a nomination by a Democratic president. Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022 His surrogates have painted James’s report as a partisan hatchet job. Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022 That none of this is generally acknowledged is due to a posthumous series of smears by left-wing journalists and historians, which started with a hatchet job in The New Republic. Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 Mar. 2021 Harry and Meghan, who have been feuding — and successfully suing the British press — were not having it, and their aides returned fire, branding the newspaper report as a preemptive hatchet job. Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 Entire books have been written about Shakespeare’s reliance on partisan chroniclers; his hatchet job on the last Yorkist king, Richard III; his flirtation with danger in depicting the removal of a monarch when his own Queen was old and heirless. Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2020 These biographers want to like Monroe, and perhaps the more savvy among them know that many of their readers won’t particularly like a hatchet job done on him. Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2020 But the fact is this is clearly, with the way it's been handled from the start with Senator Feinstein, meant to simply be a political hatchet job. Fox News, 18 Sep. 2018 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1940, in the meaning defined above

hatchet jobs

noun

plural of hatchet job
as in character assassinations

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • character assassinations
  • blackenings
  • calumniations
  • attacks
  • criticisms
  • vilifications
  • denunciations
  • defamations
  • libels
  • censures
  • muds
  • slanders
  • insinuations
  • innuendos
  • imputations
  • smears
  • insults
  • darts
  • disses
  • digs
  • outrages
  • barbs
  • dises
  • abuses
  • muck
  • detractions
  • indignities
  • affronts
  • brickbats
  • epithets
  • slaps
  • girds
  • vituperations
  • calumnies
  • slurs
  • sarcasms
  • invectives
  • slights
  • innuendoes
  • pokes
  • offenses
  • scorns
  • names
  • personalities
  • cuts
  • offences
  • disdains
  • belittlements
  • aspersions
  • contempts
  • denigrations
  • disparagements
  • put-downs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • praises
  • respects
  • acclaim
  • accolades
  • commendations
  • honors
  • applauses
  • flatteries
  • worships
  • venerations
  • esteems
  • adulations
  • adorations
  • reverences
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