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muckraking

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
muckraking/ˈmʌkreɪkɪŋ/

▶noun the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people.

– derivatives
muckrake verb,
muckraker noun.

– origin coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake.

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