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muckraking
noun as in character assassination
noun as in detraction
Strong matches
noun as in slander
Example Sentences
Social critic, scientist, muckraking journalist, Barbara Ehrenreich has never been one to take things on faith.
Like America at the turn of the century, a thrusting India today is a gold mine for a muckraking journalist.
Investigative journalist Jessica Mitford died more than 14 years ago, but in true muckraking style, she simply refuses to go away.
The life of a muckraking gossip columnist is buckets of fun.
Muckraking was just beginning in those days, and a prying reformer came to live for a while at the Greasy Spoon.
Muckraking began with the exposure of vice; men like Heney, Lindsey, Folk founded their reputations on the fight against it.
One, however, was sent to the Eastern magazine which had dispatched our muckraking hero to the Golden Gate.
The time had come, he added, to stop "muckraking" and proceed to the constructive work of removing the abuses that had grown up.
Then it went daffy over the muckraking magazine exposures, and threw out all the proprietary copy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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