muckraker

n. 探听丑闻的人 [法] 揭发贪污腐化者

词形变化

muckrakers 复数 muckrakers

别名

muck-raker

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.

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  2. 2.

    One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the Progressive Era (the 1890s to the 1920s).

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  3. 3.

    A sensationalist, scandalmongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

mudslinger

上位词 4

knocker detractor depreciator disparager

词源

From muck + raker. Believed to have been coined following a 1906 speech by United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in which he likened the investigative journalist to ‘the Man with the Muck-rake’, a character in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

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