"hatchet job" meaning in English

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          "text": "That article about the mayor is nothing more than a hatchet job.",
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          "ref": "2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.",
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          "ref": "2023 January 27, Philip Oltermann, “German critics pan Oscar-nominated All Quiet On the Western Front”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "Even the tabloid Bild, hardly known as a haven of art-house snobbery, published a hatchet job. “There are good literary adaptations and there are bad ones, and then there is All Quiet on the Western Front by director Edward Berger,” Bild’s critic wrote.",
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        "A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation."
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        {
          "word": "slam piece"
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        {
          "word": "hit piece"
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        {
          "word": "traducement"
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          "word": "calumny"
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          "text": "This so-called reform of our wage agreement was really just one big hatchet job!",
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        "An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure."
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