Muckrake

Definition: Muckrake

Muckrake

Verb

1. Explore and expose misconduct and scandals concerning public figures; "This reporter was well-known for his muckraking".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Muckrake \Muck"rake`\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. -raked; -raking.]. (references)

Detraction

Verb: detract, derogate, decry, deprecate, depreciate, disparage; run down, cry down; backcap; belittle; sneer at; (contemn); criticize, pull to pieces, pick a hole in one's coat, asperse, cast aspersions, blow upon, bespatter, blacken, vilify, vilipend; avile; give a dog a bad name, brand, malign; muckrake; backbite, libel, lampoon, traduce, slander, defame, calumniate, bear false witness against; speak ill of behind one's back.

Books

• The Muckrake Years (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

gjuajtje për skandale. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عقد (act, agreement, bead, cast, charter, compact, complicate, conclude, congeal, contract, convene, convention, covenant, decade, deed, draw, embarrass, engagement, entangle, hitch, hold, indent, instrument, knitting, knot, lease, muddy, pact, perplex, promise, ravel, vault, vaulting, writing), ‏إكتشف فضائح, ‏أربك (baffle, bamboozle, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, bother, buffalo, confound, confuse, demoralize, discompose, disconcert, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, entangle, floor, fluster, fox, fret, fuddle, gravel, molest, mystify, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put out, puzzle, ravel, show up, squirm, stop, stumble, stump, vex), ‏بحث عن فضائح. (various references)

Bulgarian 

гребло за тор. (various references)

Czech

vyhrabávat špínu. (various references)

Farsi 

چنگال یابیل کودکشی , کثافات وافتضاحات راعلنی ساختن . (various references)

French

déterrer de scandales, créer des embarras, créer des complications. (various references)

German

Mistgabel (dung fork, pitchfork). (various references)

Greek 

σκανδαλοθηρώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'לות שחיתות. (various references)

Hungarian

panamákat leleplez. (various references)

Italian

scoprire e denunciare scandali. (various references)

Manx

corlaig (rake, scraper). (various references)

Pig Latin

uckrakemay.(various references)

Romanian

furcã pentru bãlegar. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vile za đubre (muck-rake). (various references)

Spanish

remover el pasado. (various references)

Swedish

idka sensationsskriverier, dynggrep. (various references)

Thai

ค้นหาและเปิ�"โปง. (various references)

Turkish

skandal çıkaran araştırmacı, rezaletleri ortaya çıkarmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

розгрібати бруд. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "muckrake": muckraked, muckraker, muckrakers, muckrakes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Muckrake" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buckrake, Fuckarse, fuckface, Fucksake, Mokrice, Muckrik, Puckrik. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mucker.

-3 letters: amuck, crake, creak, cream, macer, maker.

-4 letters: acme, acre, arum, cake, came, care, cark, cram, cuke, cure, ecru, kame, keck, mace, mack, make, marc, mare, mark, merk, muck, mura, mure, murk, race, rack, rake, ream, reck, ruck, urea.

-5 letters: ace, amu, arc, are, ark, arm, auk, cam, car, cue, cum, cur, ear.

+1 letter: muckraked, muckraker, muckrakes.

+2 letters: muckrakers.