muckrake
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muckrake
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From muck + rake.
noun muckrakes
- A rake for scraping up dung.
verb muckrakes · muckraking · muckraked
- To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism. To think that he cares about nothing save the possibility of being found out and made ridiculous! All his friends have been ‘muckraked,’ as he calls it, and he has sat aloft and smiled over their plight; he was the landed gentleman, the true aristrocrat, whom the worries of traders and money-changer
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noun 1. A rake for scraping up dung.
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Talk about this word "muckrake." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/muckrake. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. muckrake. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/muckrake "muckrake." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/muckrake.
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@misc{muckrake_2026,
title = {muckrake},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muckrake},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
