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What is another word for
muckraking
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Noun
The action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people
Attempt to defame another
Rumour, gossip, or speculation
Adjective
Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
Verb
Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about
Present participle for to spread rumor or gossip
Present participle for to study or check into thoroughly
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Noun
▲
The action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people
dishing the dirt
exposé
exposure
libel
mudslinging
scandalmongering
slander
disparagement
defamation
calumny
aspersion
backbiting
denigration
vilification
maligning
traducement
obloquy
belittlement
detraction
scandal
lie
backstabbing
abuse
calumniation
smearing
derogation
libeling
US
traducing
libelling
UK
depreciation
mud-slinging
character assassination
bad-mouthing
vituperation
malicious gossip
smear campaign
misrepresentation
smear
slur
vilifying
aspersing
defaming
aspersions
scurrility
dirt
revilement
insult
blackening
contumely
slam
hit
mud
defamation of character
false report
gossip
slight
untruth
tale
slime
rumor
US
rumormongering
US
knock
rumour
UK
rumourmongering
UK
misrepresentation of character
dirty linen
false accusation
black eye
tittle-tattle
lying
stigma
cattiness
verbal abuse
evil-speaking
opprobrium
deprecation
rumours
UK
goss
talk
malediction
censure
tattle
malicious talk
spite
malice
spitefulness
insults
slurs
innuendo
aftertale
criticism
hearsay
knocking
dump
insinuation
rubbishing
invective
spiteful talk
slagging
infighting
badmouthing
viciousness
rumors
US
chat
running down
dirty laundry
false light
low-down dirty
fake news
slagging-off
slap in face
cheap shot
diminishment
put-down
idle rumor
malicious rumour
malicious rumours
slagging off
unkind remarks
hateful talk
injustice
injury
ridicule
hurt
damage
pejorative
wrong
minimization
harm
disesteem
rap
smear campaigning
tall tale
scandalous remark
false insinuation
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“That doesn't mean it shouldn't be done simply because this kind of
muckraking
exacerbates cynicism about public officials.”
Noun
▲
Attempt to defame another
smear campaign
gossip
libel
rumour
UK
rumor
US
talk
vilification
character assassination
defamation
defamation of character
dirty politics
dirty pool
dragging one's name through the mud
injury of reputation
malicious defamation
mudslinging
negative campaign
negative campaigning
personal attack
slander
whispering campaign
name-calling
demonization
blackening
swiftboating
smear
demonizing
US
dirty tricks
hatchet job
ad hominem
slanderous attack
hit job
demonising
UK
backbiting
denigration
insinuation
sly suggestion
innuendo
Noun
▲
Rumour, gossip, or speculation
talk
gossip
hearsay
rumor
US
rumour
UK
speculation
whispers
allusion
innuendo
insinuation
bunk
goss
grapevine
hint
jive
scuttlebutt
tattle
tittle-tattle
lip
nonsense
racket
reports
rubbish
rumble
trash
yarn
fake news
hot air
conspiracy theory
word of mouth
second-hand information
secondhand information
word
report
buzz
scandal
news
dish
noise
story
dirt
whisper
tidings
bruit
intelligence
information
tale
chitchat
on dit
idle talk
slander
canard
shu-shu
suggestion
bavardage
skinder
gen
account
chatter
latest
notice
advice
cry
calumny
furphy
dispatch
intimation
back-fence talk
labrish
Kaffeeklatsch
dirty linen
prattle
communication
message
unconfirmed report
info
word on the street
defamation
stories
US
earful
dirty laundry
libel
tales
leak
comment
titbits
small talk
allegation
dope
chat
storeys
UK
lowdown
low-down
blather
meddling
babble
clothesline
rumormongering
US
bulletin
conversation
wire
rumours
UK
whispering campaign
malicious talk
dirty wash
fame
advices
announcement
rumourmongering
UK
aspersion
canards
communiqué
breeze
item
data
claim
talk of the town
rumors
US
idle chatter
piece of gossip
the latest
malicious gossip
the word on the street
smear campaign
prate
injury
chronicle
telling tales
gossipry
blether
poop
facts
clue
titbit
chit-chat
hubbub
assertion
bush telegraph
cue
talebearing
secret
revelations
smear
grapevine report
heads up
revelation
statement
wind
warning
inkling
notification
disclosure
intimate intelligence
juicy morsel
falsehood
fabrication
hoax
belief
opinion
fiction
lie
repute
supposition
notoriety
invention
knowledge
update
summary
belittlement
scandalmongering
disparagement
status
enlightenment
discovery
description
backstabbing
aspersions
mud
backbiting
the goods
status update
eye-opener
greetings
uncos
murmur
mud-slinging
whispering
prating
malicious rumour
malicious rumours
hash
speech
idle rumor
piece of hearsay
blow by blow
mere talk
common talk
unsubstantiated information
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Adjective
▲
Damaging to someone's reputation, especially if untrue
defamatory
slanderous
calumnious
insulting
abusive
derogatory
disparaging
injurious
libellous
UK
vilifying
calumniatory
contumelious
defaming
backbiting
denigrating
maledictory
malicious
scandalmongering
scandalous
vicious
censorious
critical
denigratory
detracting
libelous
US
maledictive
scurrilous
slurring
traducing
vituperative
catty
deprecating
detractive
maligning
offensive
opprobrious
mud-slinging
aspersive
false
misrepresentative
smearing
untrue
pejorative
belittling
spiteful
contemptuous
uncomplimentary
malevolent
hurtful
slighting
degrading
derisive
vitriolic
nasty
deprecatory
rude
malign
damaging
disdainful
scornful
venomous
mean
malignant
bitter
poisonous
disrespectful
depreciative
vindictive
derogative
rancorous
hostile
hateful
wounding
evil
despiteful
depreciatory
demeaning
bad
insolent
cruel
malefic
maleficent
reproachful
sarcastic
derisory
denigrative
virulent
unkind
baleful
scathing
negative
vulgar
wicked
reviling
vituperatory
ill-natured
invective
pernicious
disapproving
decrying
dirty
vengeful
lying
evil-intentioned
obloquious
snide
calumniating
debasing
scurril
truculent
scurrile
humiliating
obnoxious
harmful
harsh
unpleasant
shrewish
detractory
destructive
cussed
detrimental
ornery
deleterious
unflattering
foul
unfounded
aspersory
libeling
US
violent
berating
unmannerly
unfriendly
unfavourable
UK
scolding
uncivil
discourteous
discrediting
affronting
dishonouring
UK
prejudicial
castigating
barbed
cutting
blasphemous
personal
dismissive
invidious
fault-finding
unfavorable
US
upbraiding
libelling
UK
resentful
acid
envious
minimizing
US
impertinent
dishonoring
US
rough
minimising
UK
horrid
baneful
judgmental
sneering
sharp-tongued
noxious
nocuous
dangerous
mischievous
ill-disposed
snarky
gossiping
mortifying
uncharitable
withering
depreciating
sardonic
unsympathetic
supercilious
acerbic
epithetical
familiar
intrusive
cheeky
ranting
denunciatory
biting
repulsive
ridiculing
unsubstantiated
baseless
unwarranted
uncorroborated
sharp
impolite
insupportable
unsupported
insidious
abrupt
curt
brusque
gruff
short
surly
blunt
ungracious
adverse
troublesome
ill
irreverent
disadvantageous
sniping
dyslogistic
downgrading
unjustifiable
unjustified
injuring
excoriating
despicable
hurting
offending
abasing
vile
shaming
reproaching
disgracing
damning
artful
perilous
splenetic
bad-natured
diminishing
deflating
green-eyed
jealous
bad-mannered
ill-mannered
hazardous
bothersome
ill-founded
awful
beastly
low
gross
offhand
bilious
jaundiced
covetous
uncool
petty
discreditable
angry
squint-eyed
spleenful
waspish
evil-minded
aspersing
envenomed
corrupting
poison
toxic
poisoned
accidentally on purpose
pestiferous
peccant
infective
ill-intentioned
toxiferous
miasmatic
pestilential
viperous
corrupt
corruptive
septic
mephitic
morbid
toxicant
noisome
horrible
abominable
envying
odious
impossible
detestable
repugnant
tricky
caustic
menacing
hate-filled
acrimonious
scathy
lousy
tough
reproving
castigatory
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Verb
▲
Present participle for to make hurtful and untrue comments about
slandering
defaming
denigrating
maligning
vilifying
disparaging
libelling
UK
libeling
US
traducing
calumniating
smearing
slurring
aspersing
decrying
belittling
sullying
blackening
besmirching
tainting
derogating
tarnishing
blotting
slighting
smirching
scandalising
UK
scandalizing
US
dishonouring
UK
dishonoring
US
injuring
reviling
insulting
attacking
vilipending
defiling
damaging
slamming
panning
roasting
assailing
detracting
misrepresenting
depreciating
scorching
blistering
backbiting
belying
sneering
blaspheming
hitting
plastering
strumpeting
bad-mouthing
running down
speaking ill of
dragging through the mud
dragging through the mire
casting aspersions on
speaking evil of
flinging mud at
slinging mud at
giving a bad name
throwing mud at
spreading scandal about
doing a hatchet job on
tearing down
telling lies about
casting a slur on
slinging mud
running a smear campaign against
blackening someone's name
running smear campaign
blackening name
disgracing
discrediting
shaming
censuring
besmearing
disrespecting
debasing
bringing discredit to
staining
stigmatizing
US
bringing shame on
bringing shame upon
knocking
rubbishing
degrading
reproaching
befouling
soiling
spoiling
lowering
spotting
blotching
ripping
deriding
stigmatising
UK
reducing
breathing on
reflecting badly on
slagging off
bringing into disrepute
tarring and feathering
ripping up and down
giving a black eye
doing a number on
embarrassing
undermining
poisoning
prejudicing
badmouthing
perverting
blemishing
blackguarding
ruining
dragging someone's name through the mud
dragging through mud
hurting
destroying
putting down
criticizing
US
criticising
UK
condemning
demeaning
dumping on
dissing
deprecating
humiliating
humbling
slating
abusing
abasing
cheapening
blackening the name of
vituperating
lambasting
minimizing
US
diminishing
taking down
scorning
chastening
bashing
taking down a peg
ridiculing
trashing
fouling
discounting
sinking
detracting from
offending
taking to pieces
berating
impugning
minimising
UK
having a go at
playing down
trivializing
US
dismissing
undervaluing
underrating
denouncing
pouring scorn on
mocking
doing down
pooh-poohing
pulling apart
branding
hitting out at
trash-talking
showing in a bad light
putting in a bad light
trivialising
UK
crying down
showing up
castigating
giving a bad name to
cutting down to size
excoriating
scolding
underestimating
hammering
downgrading
snubbing
reproving
inveighing against
railing against
deflating
mortifying
treating lightly
marginalizing
US
laying into
downplaying
rapping
scoffing at
blackening the reputation of
minifying
sneering at
misprizing
tearing into
cutting to the quick
dispraising
owning
marginalising
UK
making light of
dragging down
bringing dishonour to
bringing shame to
picking holes in
kissing off
talking down
writing off
holding cheap
shooting down
making someone eat crow
taking down a peg or two
back-biting
savaging
lampooning
skewering
villainizing
darkening
touching
harming
blaming
pummelling
UK
monstering
pummeling
rebuking
burlesquing
caricaturing
fulminating against
cursing
reprimanding
zinging
upbraiding
admonishing
chiding
depraving
bagging
flaying
marring
blasting
appalling
lecturing
spreading lies about
skinning alive
abashing
contemning
understating
jumping on
disdaining
chagrining
dressing down
laughing off
laughing at
disfavouring
disfavoring
blowing off
debauching
squashing
pulling to pieces
calling down
flaming
tongue-lashing
reflecting negatively
writing false reports about
discountenancing
spreading tales about
vituperating against
raking over the coals
marking wrong
dragging name through mud
damaging the reputation of
putting someone in their place
muddying the reputation of
casting in a bad light
harming the reputation of
causing to lose face
accusing
slagging
gossiping about
lying about
blackening the character of
casting slur on
putting zingers on
corrupting
blighting
disconcerting
selling short
disregarding
attainting
desecrating
putting hooks in
speaking badly of
crucifying
spurning
finding fault with
clamoring against
faulting
looking down on
losing face
vitiating
making someone feel ashamed
making uncomfortable
tarring
reprobating
shocking
disgusting
outraging
casting a slur
reaming
horrifying
accusing falsely
casting aspersion
despising
scathing
taunting
bestializing
brutalising
UK
bastardizing
US
demoralizing
US
animalizing
bastardising
UK
brutalizing
US
demoralising
UK
miffing
belaboring
US
potshotting
nagging
revolting
nauseating
affronting
repelling
sickening
spattering
pushing
capping
insinuating
chopping
displeasing
giving a talking-to
oppressing
persecuting
compromising
taking apart
laying down the law
pillorying
devaluing
slanging
miscalling
belabouring
UK
blackballing
dismaying
riding
hosing
squelching
mistreating
sullying the reputation of
demonizing
US
voodooing
conducting a smear campaign against
jinxing
cussing
digging
subduing
crushing
cutting up
causing a few raised eyebrows amongst
causing raised eyebrows
raising eyebrows amongst
giving offence to
hitting where one lives
discomfiting
shooting
puncturing
exposing
disesteeming
bringing into disfavour
disconsidering
cutting down
cussing out
swearing at
calling names
shouting at
calling someone names
demonising
UK
chastising
taking a swipe at
pooh poohing
shooting full of holes
ripping up
ragging on
throwing brickbats at
frowning upon
reflecting on
blowing up
quashing
bringing to naught
bemeaning
withering
breaking
haranguing
ranting at
knocking bottom out of
poking full of holes
vanquishing
confusing
confounding
taking rug out from under
putting a whammy on
causing to feel small
making someone eat humble pie
bringing down
making ashamed
settling someone's hash
casting down
bringing low
taking the wind out of someone's sails
putting to shame
putting out of countenance
making a fool of
scoring
carpeting
basting
rating
keelhauling
bawling out
jawing
railing at
ragging
reprehending
chewing out
objurgating
telling off
taking to task
ticking off
calling over the coals
reaming out
striking
lacing to
cudgeling
US
reading the riot act
lashing into
slashing
pitching into
hauling over the coals
shellacking
punishing
slapping
trimming
cudgelling
UK
giving someone a dressing-down
smothering
ripping into
having your knife in
scourging
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to spread rumor or gossip
talking
gossiping
gossipping
tattling
criticising
UK
criticizing
US
passing comment
bad-mouthing
dishing the dirt
making remarks
telling tales
tittle-tattling
spreading gossip
spreading rumours
spreading stories
whispering
circulating rumours
spreading rumors
telling tales out of school
telling secrets
wiggle-waggling
bruiting something about
bruiting something abroad
talking out of turn
spilling the beans
Verb
▲
Present participle for to study or check into thoroughly
investigating
examining
exploring
researching
considering
studying
analysing
UK
analyzing
US
inspecting
looking into
going into
probing
reviewing
scrutinising
UK
scrutinizing
US
looking over
sifting
auditing
delving into
evaluating
querying
appraising
brainstorming
casing
dissecting
enquiring into
eyeballing
inquiring into
interrogating
prospecting
questioning
scouting
bugging
canvassing
excogitating
frisking
poking
recceing
reconnoitring
UK
reconnoitering
US
searching
spying
surveying
tapping
testing
underseeking
vetting
wiretapping
checking into
checking out
checking over
checking up
checking up on
conducting an enquiry into
conducting an investigation into
deliberating on
digging into
feeling out
following up
going over
listening in
making enquiries about
making inquiry
poring over
probing into
prying into
reading into
searching for
taking stock of
weighing up
brooding over
chewing over
cross-examining
diving into
inquiring about
looking at
looking at carefully
mulling over
nosing around
poking around
reading up on
running down
scoping out
searching into
sizing up
sounding out
staking out
sussing out
working over
asking questions of
doing research into
making inquiries about
putting questions to
putting to the test
giving something the once-over
giving the once over
searching the evidence concerning
sifting the evidence concerning
subjecting to an examination
trying to get to the bottom of
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