English > hatchet job: 1 sense > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A false / false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions. |
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Synonyms | defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement |
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Narrower | character assassination, assassination, blackwash | An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation |
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libel | A false / false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person |
name, epithet | A defamatory or abusive word or phrase |
name calling, names | verbal abuse |
slander | words falsely spoken that damage the reputation of another |
smear, vilification, malignment | slanderous defamation |
Broader | disparagement, depreciation, derogation | A communication that belittles somebody or something |
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Spanish | calumnia, difamación, maledicencia, traducement |
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Catalan | calúmnia, difamació, maldiença, maledicència, traducement |
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