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hatchet job definition

☆ hatchet job

Informal a biased, malicious attack on the character or activities of a person, institution, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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