What is "muckraking"

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.