muckraking (redirected from muckraked)

muck·rake  (mkrk)

intr.v. muck·raked, muck·rak·ing, muck·rakes

To search for and expose misconduct in public life.

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[From the man with the muckrake, tool for raking muck, who cannot look up to heaven because he is so obsessed with the muck of worldly profit, in Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan.]

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muckraker n.

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muckraking

Noun

seeking out and exposing scandal relating to well-known people

muckraker n

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

muckraking - the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) exposure - the disclosure of something secret; "they feared exposure of their campaign plans"

Translations

muckraking [ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ] (fig col) n → amarillismo

adj → especializado en escándalos

muckraking [ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ] n (fig) (inf) → déterrement m d'ordures

muckraking [ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ] muck (fig) (inf) n → Sensationsmache f

adj → sensationslüstern

muckraking [ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ] n (fig col) → caccia agli scandali

adj → scandalistico/a