About The Word Muckraker
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Muckraker
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What's The Definition Of Muckraker?
[n] one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Muckraker: mudslinger Related Terms | Find terms related to Muckraker: annotator | backbiter | belittler | calumniator | captious critic | carper | caustic critic | caviler | censor | censurer | cognoscente | commentator | commenter | connoisseur | critic | criticaster | criticizer | critickin | criticule | cynic | debunker | decrier | defamer | deflater | depreciator | derogator | detractor | disparager | editor | faultfinder | hatchet man | knocker | libeler | literary critic | man of letters | mudslinger | railer | reviewer | scholiast | slanderer | smellfungus | social critic | textual critic | Thersites | traducer See Also | depreciator | detractor | disparager | knocker Muckraker In Webster's Dictionary \muck"rak`er\, 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. Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin
+ -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)
One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on
decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form
of proteid matter.
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