Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Soiled with smut, coal, soot, or the like.
- Affected with smut or mildew.
- Obscene; immodest; impure: as, smutty language.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Soiled with smut; smutted.
- adjective Tainted with mildew.
- adjective Obscene; not modest or pure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Soiled with
smut ;blackened ,dirty . - adjective
Obscene ,indecent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by obscenity
- adjective soiled with dirt or soot
Etymologies
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Examples
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The film is full of what conservatives call smutty language which seems to be a catch-all phrase for psycho-analytic babble that seeks to demystify the sexual relationship between men and women.
House on a hill 2009
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Some of the songs included were conspicuously "smutty" -- to use a word which D'Urfey ridiculed -- but the fact that the plays were fresh in the public mind was probably the most effective reason for Jeremy Collier's decision to include the not very highly respected author among the still living playwrights to be singled out for attack in "A Short View of the
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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Much of Genesis reads to Mr. Plotz like a "smutty" soap opera -- "Dynasty in the desert."
Signs and Wonders 2009
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Porter was a thoroughly good fellow, and had an inexhaustible fund of stories and anecdotes, some of them rather "smutty," but they were just the sort that suited Maroney, so that they had become the thickest of friends.
The Expressman and the Detective Allan Pinkerton 1856
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In July of the same year D'Urfey replied with the preface to his "smutty" play "The Campaigners".
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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Currie, he said, was "smutty" and had a lavatorial sense of humour, while Hatton shouted and swore at his guests.
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Currie, he said, was "smutty" and had a lavatorial sense of humour, while Hatton shouted and swore at his guests.
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Currie, he said, was "smutty" and had a lavatorial sense of humour, while Hatton shouted and swore at his guests.
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Currie, he said, was "smutty" and had a lavatorial sense of humour, while Hatton shouted and swore at his guests.
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Currie, he said, was "smutty" and had a lavatorial sense of humour, while Hatton shouted and swore at his guests.
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