hatchet job

Questions about hatchet job

What does hatchet job mean?

hatchet job means "a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions".

What is another word for hatchet job?

Close synonyms include defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hatchet job a common word?

hatchet job is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.