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/ˈməˌkɹeɪkɝ/
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[ UK /mˈʌkɹeɪkɐ/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌkɹeɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)
How To Use muckraker 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
- There's no political favoritism here, so scat, you malicious muckrakers.
- Also coming aboard is Kate Klonick, most recently — like me, like Laura McGann — of TPMmuckraker. Expansion Team | ATTACKERMAN
- Even if this book is propaganda, and Mother Teresa the cat's-paw of Vatican fundamentalists, there's something here beyond the muckraker's ken. Trashing Mother Teresa
- Even if this book is propaganda, and Mother Teresa the cat's-paw of Vatican fundamentalists, there's something here beyond the muckraker's ken. Trashing Mother Teresa
- When you look at the timeline of these events (as pulled together by a reader over at TPM Muckraker), the defense mentioned by Mark Field above may be unavailable for less than a full day of the program's implementation (i.e., less than a full day of the President being a "lawbreaker"). Balkinization
- While the bloggers and muckrakers sweat it out in every nook and corner with a wireless signal, the well-paid penmen are in luxury suites tapping their manicured fingers in front of twenty-inch flat screens.
- The major porn sites were fine with the process; they knew it was bad for them when searchers unintentionally stumbled upon their warehouses of sin, making them a target for muckrakers and publicity-seeking legislators. In the Plex