1. He devotes several paragraphs to a hatchet job.

2. Two newspapers did avery effective hatchet job on the Prime Minister's achievements.

3. After I left they did a hatchet job on the club's new member.

4. All the hatchet job here meant a calculated attempt to demolish the author.

5. The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.

6. They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.

7. Fleck was certainly not the only critic to do a hatchet job on his latest novel.

8. ‘a vicious and Consciously dishonest hatchet job’ 1.1 In a way that is directly perceptible to and under the control of the person concerned