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Definition of Muckrakes
1. muckrake [v] - See also: muckrake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muckrakes
Literary usage of Muckrakes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian by William Thomas Davis (1906)
"muckrakes is a word recently rescued from oblivion, but with a wrong understanding
of its meaning. According to Professor De- Vere, now or late Professor of ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"muckrakes, a slang term in politics for persons who " fish in troubled waters,"
from, ... The term is generally used in the form of muckrakes and ..."
3. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry by Arthur Symons (1909)
"... for one whose doggerel is worse than anything left by the lowest brawlers of
the Elizabethan age; for these were poets stooping to wield muckrakes, ..."
4. The Complete Works of Henry George by Henry George (1891)
"Take the case of those miserable "men with muckrakes," who are to be seen in
every community as plainly as Bunyan saw their typo in his vision—who, ..."
5. Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete Speeches by James Milton O'Neill (1921)
"The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society;
but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to ..."
6. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"It registers itself in the social reformer who resolutely turns his back upon
the social theorist and muckrakes business or politics with the confident ..."
7. Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian by William Thomas Davis (1906)
"muckrakes is a word recently rescued from oblivion, but with a wrong understanding
of its meaning. According to Professor De- Vere, now or late Professor of ..."
8. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"muckrakes, a slang term in politics for persons who " fish in troubled waters,"
from, ... The term is generally used in the form of muckrakes and ..."
9. The Romantic Movement in English Poetry by Arthur Symons (1909)
"... for one whose doggerel is worse than anything left by the lowest brawlers of
the Elizabethan age; for these were poets stooping to wield muckrakes, ..."
10. The Complete Works of Henry George by Henry George (1891)
"Take the case of those miserable "men with muckrakes," who are to be seen in
every community as plainly as Bunyan saw their typo in his vision—who, ..."
11. Classified Models of Speech Composition: Ninety-five Complete Speeches by James Milton O'Neill (1921)
"The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society;
but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to ..."
12. An Introduction to Social Ethics: The Social Conscience in a Democracy by John Moffatt Mecklin (1920)
"It registers itself in the social reformer who resolutely turns his back upon
the social theorist and muckrakes business or politics with the confident ..."
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