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Exposure of real or supposed scandal
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muckraking
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a muckraking , gossipy magazine EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A war of words continued for months, the defeated candidates complaining of unfair muckraking .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of muckrake English)
Usage examples of muckraking.
Mitford Romilly Treuhaft, known as Decca, who died last month, was among the handful of great muckraking journalists of our time.
It was all muckraking and lies and maliciousness, actual or otherwise, provable or not.
In her disgust, she quite dismissed the public significance of the muckraking journalist.
He could almost see the young woman he had supposedly partied with, although her motivations wavered: was she trying to claw her way up the social ladder from a not-quite-important family, or was she a muckraking journalist out to expose the foibles of the rich and notorious?
Behind her new Saints Louis and Paul there would be not only Science purifying Religion and being purified by it, but hypochondria, melancholia, cowardice, stupidity, cruelty, muckraking curiosity, knowledge without wisdom, and everything that the eternal soul in Nature loathes, instead of the virtues of which St Catherine was the figure head.