Meaning of Tarbellize | Babel Free

Definitions

To criticize through investigatory journalism.

US, archaic, obsolete, transitive

Examples

“The agencies of the Central States have been "Tarbellized" this month. Now watch the returns.”

“At this stage we must take a risk; / We may full soon be Tarbellized, / Or through exposures blunt and brisk / Be quite completely Lawsonized.”

“Shirley worked deviously, of course. Having, under a name not her own, achieved fame by Tarbellizing the plutocrat in a book, and having (still in disguise) been given by the simple minded great man command of his most private papers […]”

“[T]he time was when the public feeling against the Standard Oil has been Tarbellized and Lawsonized into almost a fever-heat.”

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