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Muckraker vs Muckrakes - What's the difference?

muckraker | muckrakes |

As a noun muckraker

is one who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.

As a verb muckrakes is

third-person singular of muckrake.

muckraker

English

Noun

(s)
  • (US) One who investigates and exposes issues of corruption that often violate widely held values; e.g. one who exposes political corruption or the poor conditions in prisons.
  • (British) A sensationalist, scandal-mongering journalist, one who is not driven by any social principles.
  • (US, historical) One of a group of American investigative reporters, novelists and critics of the (the 1890s to the 1920s)

    • Derived terms

    * muckraking

    muckrakes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (muckrake)

    • muckrake

    English

    Verb

  • to search for and expose corruption or scandal especially as done by a journalist.