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   muckraking

   /ˈmʌkˌreɪkɪŋ/

   noun

   • 1. the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people: "a muckraking journalist"

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

   Scrabble Points: 23

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