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What (who) is Muckrake - definition

Muckrake

·add. ·vi To seek for, expose, or charge, ·esp. habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun 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.

muckraking

REFORM-MINDED AMERICAN JOURNALISTS WHO ATTACKED ESTABLISHED INSTITUTIONS AND LEADERS AS CORRUPT

Muckraking; Muckracking; Muck-raking; Muck-racking; Muckrak; Muckrakers; Muchracker; Muckracker; Muckrackers; Muck raker; Muck rake

¦ noun the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people.

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muckrake verb

muckraker noun

Origin

coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake.

Muckraked

·add. ·Impf & ·p.p. of Muckrake.

Examples of use of Muckrake

1. In 1'06, President Theodore Roosevelt first likened crusading journalists to a man with "the muckrake in his hand" in a speech to the Gridiron Club in Washington.