mass noun
- the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people in an underhand way搜集并揭发名人丑事。
attrib.
- searching out and publicizing scandal in such a way搜集并公开丑闻的; 爱搜集并揭发丑闻的：
a muckraking journalist.
揭丑记者。
派生词
muckrake
verbmuckraker
noun词源
coined by President Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the man with the muck rake.