Meaning of MUCKRAKER
| Pronunciation: | | m'ukr`eykur
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| | Definition: | | [n] one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) |
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| | Synonyms: | | mudslinger |
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| | See Also: | | depreciator, detractor, disparager, knocker | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \muck"rak`er\, to designate one so engaged, were
speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original
allusion was to a character in Bunyan's ``Pilgrim's
Progress'' so intent on raking up muck that he could not see
a celestial crown held above him. Mucoid \Mu"coid\, n. [Mucin
+ -oid.] (Physiol. Chem.)
One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on
decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form
of proteid matter.
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| | Related Terms: | | annotator, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, captious critic, carper, caustic critic, caviler, censor, censurer, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, connoisseur, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, editor, faultfinder, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, literary critic, man of letters, mudslinger, railer, reviewer, scholiast, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, textual critic, Thersites, traducer |
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