Muckrake

Word MUCKRAKE
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Hyphenation muck rake muck rake
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Definitions and meanings of "Muckrake"

What do we mean by muckrake?

To search for and expose misconduct in public life. intransitive verb

A rake for scraping muck or filth. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. noun

A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See muckrake, v. i., below.

To seek for, expose, or charge, especially habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations. intransitive verb

To search for and expose corruption or scandal especially as done by a journalist. verb

Explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures verb

A rake for scraping up dung.

A person who stirs up controversy. Typically by revealing the truth that has been covered up by a person or group. Urban Dictionary

The maid that has to clean up a couple's cum on the bed in a motel or hotel after they have just had sex. Urban Dictionary

Informal diction used for greeting other "whities" Urban Dictionary

The act of a male mucking out the dingle berries and other greasy extremities from a females anus in preparation for anal sex. Urban Dictionary

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The word "muckrake" in example sentences

HOFFER: And it has a kind of muckrake -- or a sort of -- you know, muckrakers at the beginning of the 20th century were attacking the robber barons, the great industries, for their abuses, the way they abused their workers, they way they abused public trust, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It is neither our purpose nor our desire merely to "muckrake" Pittsburg or any other city. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The noun "muckrake" (literally, a rake for "muck," i.e., manure) rose out of the dung heap and into the realm of literary metaphor in 1684. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Irrespective of the director's stated intent (see my interview below) to not muckrake (for lack of a better phrase) he inadvertently does, while straddling a fine line, also inadvertently serving the company's interest, by structuring a grand apologia and cautionary note to the future. ❋ Michael Vazquez (2011)

Come on, every year the Globe and the Herald muckrake the dozens of Boston Police officers whose overtime and detail pay pushes them over the $100K/year mark. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2009)

CNN stop covering this moron just to muckrake Palin, practice some responsible journalism .... heck, even the liberals I know are getting tired of your sensationalism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you want to muckrake old business, let's talk about the Kennedy's and Marilyn Monroe or Chappaquiddik. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But there's a problem: if you are going to muckrake with science, you need to be able to refute scientific evidence which doesn't agree with your hypothesis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's one thing to muckrake with our military under the guise of a threat to our nation's security, but that excuse went out the window years ago. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the widely disseminated April speech, Roosevelt indicted a type of journalist who, he said, "never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muckrake, speedily becom [ing] not a help to society, not an incitement to good, but one of the most potent forces for evil." ❋ Unknown (2008)

He's encouraging them to join our soldiers as they muckrake through the Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, Sadr City, and elsewhere; picking a fight with the same Shia militias Bush once was encouraging to violence against Sunnis to suppress their influence in the formation of the new puppet authority. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now Bush is bent on interjecting our troops into almost every community to muckrake, threatening to escalate violent resistance to our military all throughout Iraq without any sense of connection to any aspect of democratic governance. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It almost seems as if Bush is intent on sandbagging any chance of reconciliation between the new regime and the opposition forces as he readies even more U.S. soldiers to deploy to Iraq, and to muckrake through Iraqi neighborhoods trying to intimidate those Iraqis who would violently resist. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The new Iraq escalation is a political ploy to roll back the 'terrorist fringe' in Iraq -- far enough for Bush to free enough soldiers to diversify his militarism, perhaps, to muckrake in Iran or Syria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Despite the non-binding nature of the resolution, this one is being forwarded by a Congress which is determined to hold Bush accountable for all of his past and present flaunting of his assumed authority to muckrake with our military in Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2007)

With the convictions of Lay and Skillings, Palastseized the opportunity to muckrake enough dirt on Enron to fill its former Houston headquarters from basement to rooftop. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It should be more than deflating to the parasites in the White House if they finally manage to get approval for an increased force, but, can't get permission (or funding) to muckrake around the world with them. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The FISA courts are, despite their misuse, the primary check on the Executive branch's and their agents 'ambitions to eavesdrop and muckrake into the lives of our country's citizens for reasons of national security or for other more nefarious purposes. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But, we don't really have much control over the institutions of our government which make it their business to meddle and muckrake with other nations. ❋ Unknown (2006)

[Michael Moore] can be considered the Nation's [muckraker] with the way he has exposed [corporate America] to be greedy and corrupt. ❋ Matty (2004)

woman: [oh yeah baby] man: u like that baby? woman: oh yeah man: oh im about to cum im about to cum! woman: [that's a lot] of cum! man: sure feel sorry for the muckraker that has to clean that up [tomorow] ❋ Sexybitch1992 (2012)

[whaddup] [muckraker]! ❋ Fred Lawrence (2004)

“Last night I gave [Susan] a Missouri Muckraker before [plastering] her [hole].” ❋ Greasygreaser (2020)

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