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US
/ˈməˌkɹeɪkɪŋ/
]
[ UK /mˈʌkɹeɪkɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /mˈʌkɹeɪkɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
How To Use muckraking In A Sentence
- Instead, Snider's point is that both sides settle for easy answers to complex problems, finding their solution in pointless blame-placing and muckraking.
- Like old-fashioned muckraking, smearing people for political advantage is nothing new but it has recently become ‘respectable’ enough for the smearing to be done proudly, with no holds barred.
- Tribeca, with its high-low mix of star-studded premieres last year's opening-night film was "Shrek Forever After" and muckraking documentaries, Hong Kong action movies and earnest indie dramas, is much more difficult to characterize. Sharpening Its Lens, Even as It Expands
- President Theodore Roosevelt, who in a fit of pique coined the term ‘muckraking’, called him a potent influence for evil.
- Two of the candidates complained of unfair muckraking during the election campaign.
- This reporter was well-known for his muckraking
- They want you to think they're just investigating muckraking fools and tracked down this bust through a series of astute analyses and fancy footwork, when probably the total extent of their exertion was picking up a phone.
- We can honestly say that we do not regret the demise of this muckraking paper.
- As usual, Jack has done a first-rate job of muckraking, but there is no way to disguise that boxing is planned savagery.
- They didn't want to inflame the envy of common people; they didn't want to expose themselves to muckraking scrutiny; they didn't want to endanger the security of their families.