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Muckraker

Muckraker Meaning & Definition
Muckraker Definition And Meaning

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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