muckrake
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There is a LOT of money to be lost by even minor mitigation of AGW and so, since the facts aren't on the side of "do nothing, it's not a problem", they must polarise opinion, make it all "us" and "them" and demonise, muddy waters and muckrake.
— RealClimate -
During a Southeast Tennessee Political Action Committee meeting Friday, Councilman Manny Rico twice warned council hopefuls not to muckrake the sitting local government.
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For, behold, the muckrake is likewise visible in all Some of the Red Indians on the plains have discarded the songs of their fathers, and adopted certain of Dr. Watts's hymns, which they howl at their scalp-dances with much satisfaction This is encouraging, certainly, but we dare not counsel the good missionaries to pack up their libraries and go home with the impression that the noble red is thoroughly converted.
— The Fiend's Delight -
But since ye prefer it this way, ye muckrake, faith,
— Captain Blood -
Arn is an aggressive reporter, never afraid to ask difficult questions, hound evasive sources, or muckrake when things appear suspect.
— Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day -
The noun "muckrake" (literally, a rake for "muck," i.e., manure) rose out of the dung heap and into the realm of literary metaphor in 1684.
— Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day -
He uses a series of false assumptions about tourism being up in Juneau and Piper Palin opening a lemonade stand to cash in on bus-riding tourists as a jumping off point for some biting commentary, and to muckrake Thoma's criminal record.
— JuneauEmpire.com -
You cannot do it if, like John Bunyan's man with the muckrake, you keep your eyes always down on the straw at your feet, and never lift them to the crown above.
— Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms -
At the same time, be it understood, I am not here to muckrake the past of one so prominent and affluent in the most honored and lucrative of modern professions; but facts are facts, and these particular facts are quoted here to bind and buttress my claim that the best dancers are the American dancers.
— Europe Revised -
Sinclair's book, together with a campaign of education conducted by the muckrake periodicals against harmful patent medicines aroused public interest to such a degree, that two important laws were passed.
— The United States Since the Civil War