muckrake

muckrake Definition

muck·rake (muk′rāk′)

intransitive verb muckraked -·raked′, muckraking -·rak′·ing

☆ to search for and publicize, as in newspapers, any real or alleged corruption by public officials, business executives, or other important persons

Etymology: inspired by the allusion by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) to the man with the muck rake in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

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muckrake Quotes

A man that could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand.

—Bunyan,John

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