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muckrake

[ US /ˈməˌkɹeɪk/ ]
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  1. explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures
    This reporter was well-known for his muckraking

How To Use muckrake In A Sentence

  • Ramsden is a good-tempered truth-seeker, not a malevolent muckraker.
  • It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox haranguers to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
  • HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
  • It is neither our purpose nor our desire merely to "muckrake" Pittsburg or any other city. "Instead of an Article : About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine"
  • Roger & Me muckraked the CEO of Roger Smith for closing a Buick plant and throwing out thousands of employees in different areas of US. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • CNN stop covering this moron just to muckrake Palin, practice some responsible journalism .... heck, even the liberals I know are getting tired of your sensationalism. Johnston says Palin lost his vote
  • There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
  • And now that trillions are sloshing up and down K Street, the same muckraked fate looms for the Obama administration. Newsalert
  • Also coming aboard is Kate Klonick, most recently — like me, like Laura McGann — of TPMmuckraker. Expansion Team | ATTACKERMAN
  • Come on, every year the Globe and the Herald muckrake the dozens of Boston Police officers whose overtime and detail pay pushes them over the $100K/year mark. In the ballpark
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