hatchet job

1. A false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions (synset 106732328)
   is a type of: depreciation, derogation, disparagement - a communication that belittles somebody or something
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: calumniation, calumny, defamation, obloquy, traducement

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