muckrake
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- muckraker noun
- muckraking noun
Etymology
Origin of muckrake
First recorded in 1675–85; obsolete muck rake “a rake for piling up muck or dung.” The modern sense was first recorded in 1850–55. See muck, rake 1
Example Sentences
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“The seasoned families will never live on apartment house terms, like larvae in a honeycomb,” wrote the muckraking journalist Will Irwin in 1927.
Woodward and Bernstein had just changed the world with their muckraking, and what was I doing with my brand-new degree in journalism?
From Los Angeles Times
Wells muckraked the failings of the press, in other words.
From Salon
Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid for the Valley to secede from L.A. — has died.
From Los Angeles Times
“For the past six years, the public has been reading and hearing a prosecution and muckraking narrative about this case that is simply fundamentally wrong,” Morrison wrote in an email.
From Seattle Times
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