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Definition of Muckraking
1. Noun. The exposure of scandal (especially about public figures).
Definition of Muckraking
1. Verb. (present participle of muckrake) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Muckraking
1. muckrake [v] - See also: muckrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muckraking
Literary usage of Muckraking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Popular Magazines: A Bibliography by Ethel Stephens (1916)
"muckraking and Controlling Interests Bray, FC Recent phases ... muckraking in
the popular magazines is done in a superficial, incomplete way. ..."
2. Addresses, Discussions, Etc. by Rome Green Brown (1917)
"muckraking the Constitution ADDRESS Before the State Bar Association of North
Carolina DELIVERED AT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC JUNE 30, 1914 BY ROME G. BROWN ..."
3. Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest by Walter Lippmann (1914)
"... DRIFT AND MASTERY PART I CHAPTER I THE THEMES OF muckraking THERE is in America
to-day a distinct prejudice in favor of those who make the accusations. ..."
4. Right Reading: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books (1902)
"... forgetful of the perennial poetry of the world, muckraking in a litter of
fugitive refuse, I think of that wonderful scene in the Pilgrim'* ..."
5. Europe Revised by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1914)
"CHAPTER XXIII muckraking IN OLD POMPEII IT now devolves on me as a painful yet
necessary duty to topple from its pedestal one of the most popular idols of ..."
6. What are the Demands of the Reform-agitator? by Richard Sylvester Dow, R. S. D. (1912)
"wealthy class more rapidly to-day than ever before in the economic history of
this nation, but we must have sensation and muckraking. ..."
7. American Popular Magazines: A Bibliography by Ethel Stephens (1916)
"muckraking and Controlling Interests Bray, FC Recent phases ... muckraking in
the popular magazines is done in a superficial, incomplete way. ..."
8. Addresses, Discussions, Etc. by Rome Green Brown (1917)
"muckraking the Constitution ADDRESS Before the State Bar Association of North
Carolina DELIVERED AT WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, NC JUNE 30, 1914 BY ROME G. BROWN ..."
9. Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest by Walter Lippmann (1914)
"... DRIFT AND MASTERY PART I CHAPTER I THE THEMES OF muckraking THERE is in America
to-day a distinct prejudice in favor of those who make the accusations. ..."
10. Right Reading: Words of Good Counsel on the Choice and Use of Books (1902)
"... forgetful of the perennial poetry of the world, muckraking in a litter of
fugitive refuse, I think of that wonderful scene in the Pilgrim'* ..."
11. Europe Revised by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1914)
"CHAPTER XXIII muckraking IN OLD POMPEII IT now devolves on me as a painful yet
necessary duty to topple from its pedestal one of the most popular idols of ..."
12. What are the Demands of the Reform-agitator? by Richard Sylvester Dow, R. S. D. (1912)
"wealthy class more rapidly to-day than ever before in the economic history of
this nation, but we must have sensation and muckraking. ..."
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