Definition of "muckrakes" [muckrakes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of muckrake. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "I have no use whatever for the critic whose heart is set on her destruction or who muckrakes it for a revenue."
• ""To lock horns with the muckrakes and to defend New York against all who defame and censure it the Association for New York was incorporated yesterday.""
• "Apart from the inclusion of the apocryphal Shepherd of Hermas and Epistle of Barnabas (don't get me started on what the article muckrakes with the inflammatory comment about the Jews - yes I KNOW there are issues here about antisemitism but a quick dab in an article is surely not the way to deal with them), about which more in a mo, the main textual observations are these:"