muckrake
to search for and expose real or alleged corruption, scandal, or the like, especially in politics.
Origin of muckrake
1Other words from muckrake
- muck·rak·er, noun
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How to use muckrake in a sentence
Social critic, scientist, muckraking journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich has never been one to take things on faith.
Barbara Ehrenreich Gives God a Going Over in Her New Book | Nick Romeo | April 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike America at the turn of the century, a thrusting India today is a gold mine for a muckraking journalist.
Investigative journalist Jessica Mitford died more than 14 years ago, but in true muckraking style, she simply refuses to go away.
The life of a muckraking gossip columnist is buckets of fun.
Muckraking was just beginning in those days, and a prying reformer came to live for a while at the Greasy Spoon.
The Iron Puddler | James J. Davis
Muckraking began with the exposure of vice; men like Heney, Lindsey, Folk founded their reputations on the fight against it.
A Preface to Politics | Walter LippmannOne, however, was sent to the Eastern magazine which had dispatched our muckraking hero to the Golden Gate.
The Native Son | Inez Haynes IrwinThe time had come, he added, to stop "muckraking" and proceed to the constructive work of removing the abuses that had grown up.
History of the United States | Charles A. Beard and Mary R. BeardThen it went daffy over the muckraking magazine exposures, and threw out all the proprietary copy.
The Clarion | Samuel Hopkins Adams
British Dictionary definitions for muckrake
/ (ˈmʌkˌreɪk) /
an agricultural rake for spreading manure
(intr) to seek out and expose scandal, esp concerning public figures
Derived forms of muckrake
- muckraker, noun
- muckraking, noun
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