Crossword clues for muckrake
The Collaborative International Dictionary
muckrake \muck"rake`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. -raked; p. pr. & vb. n. -raking.] To seek for, expose, or charge, especially habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations.
Note: On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on ``The Man with the Muck Rake,'' in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muckrake, in the above sense, and the noun muckraker, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's Progress'' so intent on raking up muck that he could not see a celestial crown held above him.
Wiktionary
n. A rake for scraping up dung. vb. (cx intransitive English) To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism.
WordNet
v. explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures; "This reporter was well-known for his muckraking"
Usage examples of "muckrake".
He replaced one weapon and took up the other, and Llesho saw how foolish he must have seemed with his companions, playing at tridents with their muckrakes in the bay.
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.