muckraker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: muck=rak=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

muckraker, n. 

 A person who habitually muckrakes.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

muckraker

Thersites, annotator, backbiter, belittler, calumniator, captious critic, carper, caustic critic, caviler, censor, censurer, cognoscente, commentator, commenter, connoisseur, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cynic, debunker, decrier, defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager, editor, faultfinder, hatchet man, knocker, libeler, literary critic, man of letters, mudslinger, railer, reviewer, scholiast, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, textual critic, traducer

ROGET THESAURUS

muckraker

Detractor

N detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.