Muckrake
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Muckrake is a noun meaning A rake for scraping up dung.
Meaning
A rake for scraping up dung.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To search for and expose corruption or scandal, especially as a form of investigative journalism.
Example Sentences
His book, published this month, combines the muckraking approach of Eric Schlosser’s “Fast Food Nation” with the wry travelogue approach of a Michael Moore movie.
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-changers didn’t concern.
Word Forms
- muckrakes
- muckraking
- muckraked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rake, rakeful, raker, hell-rake, rake-n-scrape, raking.
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