Thesaurus / muckrake
other words for muckrake
MOST RELEVANT
- consider
- examine
- explore
- inspect
- interrogate
- probe
- question
- review
- scrutinize
- search
- study
- bug
- case
- delve
- dig
- eyeball
- frisk
- inquire
- poke
- prospect
- pry
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- scout
- sift
- spy
- tap
- wiretap
- be all ears
- check out
- check over
- check up
- feel out
- give the once over
- go into
- inquisite
- listen in
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- nose around
- put to the test
- run down
- stake out
See also synonyms for: muckraking
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Of Walt Whitman it is: "The dirty, clumsy paws of a harper whose plectrum is a muckrake."
SHELBURNE ESSAYS, THIRD SERIESPAUL ELMER MORE
The journalist might well exchange the muckrake for the pick and dig it out.
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WORDS RELATED TO MUCKRAKE
- be all ears
- bug
- case
- check out
- check over
- check up
- consider
- delve
- dig
- examine
- explore
- eyeball
- feel out
- frisk
- give the once over
- go into
- inquire
- inquisite
- inspect
- interrogate
- listen in
- look into
- look over
- look-see
- make inquiry
- muckrake
- nose around
- poke
- probe
- prospect
- pry
- put to the test
- question
- read
- reconnoiter
- research
- review
- run down
- scout
- scrutinize
- search
- sift
- spy
- stake out
- study
- tap
- wiretap
- asperse
- assail
- attack
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belie
- belittle
- besmirch
- blacken name
- blaspheme
- blister
- blot
- calumniate
- cast a slur on
- curse
- damage
- decry
- defame
- defile
- denigrate
- depreciate
- derogate
- detract
- dishonor
- disparage
- give a bad name
- hit
- hurt
- injure
- libel
- malign
- muckrake
- pan
- plaster
- revile
- roast
- run smear campaign
- scandalize
- scorch
- slam
- sling mud
- slur
- smear
- smirch
- sneer
- strumpet
- sully
- tarnish
- tear down
- traduce
- vilify
- asperse
- assail
- attack
- backbite
- bad-mouth
- belie
- belittle
- besmirch
- blacken name
- blaspheme
- blister
- blot
- calumniate
- cast a slur on
- curse
- damage
- decry
- defame
- defile
- denigrate
- depreciate
- derogate
- detract
- dishonor
- disparage
- give a bad name
- hit
- hurt
- injure
- libel
- malign
- muckrake
- pan
- plaster
- revile
- roast
- run smear campaign
- scandalize
- scorch
- slam
- sling mud
- slur
- smear
- smirch
- sneer
- strumpet
- sully
- tarnish
- tear down
- traduce
- vilify
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.