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Definition 2024
muckraker
muckraker
English
Noun
muckraker (plural muckrakers)
- (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
- (Britain) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
- (US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s)
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Translations
A scandal-mongering person who is not driven by any social principle
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