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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1944 a forceful or malicious verbal attack

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hatchet jobs) To do a hatchet job on someone or something means to say or write something mentioning many bad things about them, which harms their reputation. (INFORMAL) Unfortunately, his idea of bold journalism was a hatchet job, portraying the staff in a negative light. N-COUNT: usu sing, oft N on n