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.