muck|rak|er

muck|rak|er
muck|rak|er «MUHK RAY kuhr», noun.
a person, especially a journalist, who muckrakes. The name “muckrakers” was originally given to a group of American journalists and novelists of the early 1900's noted for exposing social and political evils. »

Lincoln Steffens was a muckraker.

[American English (coined by Theodore Roosevelt) < “man with the muckrake” in John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress]

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