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Noun muckraker has 1 sense

• muckraker(n = noun.person) mudslinger - one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage); Array
is a kind of depreciator, detractor, disparager, knocker
Derived form verb muckrake₁

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THESAURUS

muckraker

Thersites, annotator, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, captious critic, carper, caustic critic, caviler, censor, censurer, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, connoisseur, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, editor, faultfinder, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, literary critic, man of letters, mudslinger, railer, reviewer, scholiast, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, textual critic, traducer

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muckraker

Detractor

N detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.

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