muckraking

Variant of muckrake

intransitive verb muckraked, muckraking

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

Origin: 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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