Reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt.
Synonyms
Examples for "mudslinger"
Examples for "mudslinger"
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Obviously, this mudslinger turned to the widow Marshall with this story.
2
I saw the winner of the prize both garlanded with flowers and besieged by stone-throwers and mudslingers.
3
With that settled, why don't you mudslingers in the media go be more useful and locate the whereabouts of the person who killed him.
1
You forget you are talking to the champion female muckraker of the country.
2
She discoursed long and accurately on the personal New York affairs of the returned muckraker.
3
For some moments the muckraker considered the statement thoughtfully.
4
The muckraker has scattered such indiscriminate charges that great caution is necessary to discover the truth.
5
But there's a magazine muckraker among them.
6
You've got a wife home, muckraker.
7
When Pierre Salinger went from muckraker to racketeering investigator in the Justice Department under RFK, the press was wary.
8
Judging by the above quote, he is a radical libertarian (sometimes branded a muckraker or modern-day soothsayer).
9
La Riviere's premier muckraker stares at the approaching Neanderthal with wide, horrified eyes, then throws the minicorder at him.
10
Conservative and radical, millionaire and muckraker succumbed to the spell of the Ashton hospitality and the lure of the new dances.
11
A loyal Adopted Son of California, a novelist and muckraker, returned a few years ago to the beloved land of his adoption.
12
Sinclair was the ultimate muckraker, the scourge of capitalists and greedy politicians, and a vibrant man of the left, when there was a left.
13
For three years on that most sensational of the New York dailies he had been the star man, the chief muckraker, the chief sleuth.
14
For better and for worse, the American journalistic century devolved from the muckraker to the pundit to the anchorman...
15
Thus, Bunyan's " muckraker" lives again; thus, "the curse of Meroz," and many another Bible reference, springs up with a fresh meaning.
16
Cassidy Towne was one of the city's most feared and hated muckrakers.