Synonyms for muckraking
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : muhk-reyk |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmʌkˌreɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for muckraking Other synonyms for the word muckraking
- abuse
- ad hominem
- agitate
- asperse
- aspersion
- assail
- attack
- backbite
- backbiting
- backstabbing
- bad-mouth
- be all ears
- belie
- belittlement
- black eye
- blacken name
- blackening
- blaspheme
- blister
- blot
- bug
- calumniate
- calumny
- canvass
- case
- cast a slur on
- check out
- check over
- check up
- contend for
- contest
- crusade
- curse
- damage
- decry
- delve
- denigration
- deprecation
- depreciate
- depreciation
- derogate
- derogation
- detract
- detraction
- dig
- dirt
- dirty linen
- dirty politics
- dirty pool
- dirty tricks
- disesteem
- dishonor
- electioneer
- examine
- explore
- eyeball
- feel out
- frisk
- give a bad name
- give the once over
- go into
- go to grass roots
- harm
- hatchet job
- hit
- hit the trail
- hurt
- injure
- injury
- injustice
- innuendo
- inquire
- inquisite
- insinuation
- inspect
- interrogate
- knock
- libel
- libeling
- lie
- listen in
- lobby
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- malign
- maligning
- mend fences
- minimization
- misrepresentation
- muckrake
- muckraking
- mud
- mud-slinging
- mudsling
- mudslinging
- name-calling
- nose around
- obloquy
- pan
- pejorative
- personal attack
- plaster
- poke
- politick
- press the flesh
- probe
- prospect
- pry
- put to the test
- question
- rap
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- review
- revile
- revilement
- ridicule
- ring doorbells
- roast
- run
- run down
- run for
- run smear campaign
- running down
- scandal
- scandalize
- scandalmongering
- scorch
- scout
- scrutinize
- scurrility
- search
- shake hands and kiss babies
- sift
- slam
- slanderous attack
- slime
- sling mud
- slur
- smear
- smear campaign
- smirch
- sneer
- solicit votes
- spy
- stake out
- stand for
- strumpet
- study
- stump
- sully
- tale
- tap
- tarnish
- tear down
- tour
- traduce
- traducement
- traducing
- vilification
- vilify
- vituperation
- whistle-stop
- wiretap
- wrong
Définition of muckraking
- As in slander : noun scandalous remark
- As in character assassination : noun attack someone's reputation
- As in detraction : noun misrepresentation; slander
- As in investigate : verb check into thoroughly
- As in slander : verb make a scandalous remark
- As in campaign : verb attempt to win political election
- The muckraking added to it aroused a spirit against all success in business, whether the methods pursued were honest or not.
- Extract from : « Ethics in Service » by William Howard Taft
- Muckraking was just beginning in those days, and a prying reformer came to live for a while at the Greasy Spoon.
- Extract from : « The Iron Puddler » by James J. Davis
- The popular printed magazines in America had their heydey in the muckraking period about ten years ago.
- Extract from : « The Photoplay » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- I wish I'd had all the facts about who this red-haired female Machiavelli was—what a piece of muckraking it would have made!
- Extract from : « The Silent Bullet » by Arthur B. Reeve
- Muckraking began with the exposure of vice; men like Heney, Lindsey, Folk founded their reputations on the fight against it.
- Extract from : « A Preface to Politics » by Walter Lippmann
- One, however, was sent to the Eastern magazine which had dispatched our muckraking hero to the Golden Gate.
- Extract from : « The Native Son » by Inez Haynes Irwin
- The time had come, he added, to stop "muckraking" and proceed to the constructive work of removing the abuses that had grown up.
- Extract from : « History of the United States » by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
- Then it went daffy over the muckraking magazine exposures, and threw out all the proprietary copy.
- Extract from : « The Clarion » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- It needn't be a muckraking paper, need it, forever smelling out something rotten, and exploiting it in big headlines?
- Extract from : « The Clarion » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
- I don't believe young Mr. Surtaine will have enough money left to indulge in the luxury of muckraking, after that.
- Extract from : « The Clarion » by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Antonyms for muckraking
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