Get the Word of the Day - muckrake

John Bunyan in his The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684) uses a muck-rake as a symbol for a carnal mind, and later interpreted as the pursuit of worldly gain. Muckrake continued to have a pejorative sense throughout the 19th century in addition to its original sense “a rake for piling...

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