1
as in soil
foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something
once a year they cleaned all of the smut out of the chimney
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2
as in grossness
the quality or state of being obscene
the talk-show host is famous for shows filled with smut and scandal
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as in to dirty
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Recent Examples of smut
Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
—Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
But this is often undermined by the series’ predilection for smut.
—Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
These authors built up readerships just by cranking out 300 pages of smut and then putting it on Kindle and now they’re getting scooped up by publishers.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
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Noun
In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
—Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
But this is often undermined by the series’ predilection for smut.
—Lucy Ford, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
These authors built up readerships just by cranking out 300 pages of smut and then putting it on Kindle and now they’re getting scooped up by publishers.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smut
Noun
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These houses had three types: homes with steps along the wall or that form a passageway, homes built into two levels with higher places with scorched soil for cooking areas and lower spaces for living, and flat-bottomed homes used as living spaces.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
5 June 2025
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Not just because passenger planes capable of breaking the sound barrier are in development — for the first time ever, they could be allowed to do it over American soil.—
Edward Russell,
CNN Money,
5 June 2025
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Crème Brûlée Steve Granitz Crème brûlée is like butter blonde, but dirtied up a bit for a browned, warm tint.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
2 May 2025
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He’s come through with timely hits, dirtied his uniform on the bases and made an impact with his arm in the outfield.—
Cody Stavenhagen,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The crowd was filled with men and women whose daily jobs leave them with dirt under their nails and pride in their chests because of their impact on everyone’s lives.—
Salena Zito,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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Alcaraz improved to 21-1 on clay this year, winning titles on the dirt in Rome — beating Sinner in the final after the Italian returned from his doping ban — and Monte Carlo.—
Jerome Pugmire,
Baltimore Sun,
6 June 2025
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During the presentation by PMM Chesterton, which wants to redevelop the golf course, Kowalski used a vulgarity to describe how the houses would be too close to each other.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
1 June 2025
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The fans in Section 204, directly beyond where a right fielder stands, eschewed artistry for straight-up vulgarity.—
Will Sammon,
New York Times,
17 May 2025
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Also, faint objects appear even fainter because their light is smeared out.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
15 May 2025
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Smartmatic wants an even bigger payday than Dominion Voting Systems, which was similarly smeared by Fox News and settled a defamation lawsuit with the network in 2023 for a whopping $787 million.—
Marshall Cohen,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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Given her past record of almost never getting into the muck of rumors around her personal life, the latter speculations make better sense.—
Sweta Kaushal,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Justin has been dragged into the muck since March 2024, when he was briefly detained at his father’s L.A. mansion the day of the feds’ raid (the rap star’s Star Island mansion got hit up by Homeland Security, too).—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
21 May 2025
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The hip-hop stars of Coogler’s youth like NWA, Ice-T, 2 Live Crew, and Too Short were pursued by the government, accused of promoting obscenity and violence.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
2 June 2025
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Children do not have a right to access alcohol, tobacco, drugs, firearms, automobiles, pornography, obscenity or any other dangerous material and public libraries have no obligation to provide it to them.—
Opinion Staff,
Oc Register,
27 May 2025
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And to ensure that the many players with question marks over their future are not tarred with the ‘not real ones’ brush, consider the uncertainty over the goalkeeper situation, which is a complicated web of issues.—
Sam Lee,
New York Times,
19 May 2025
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Politics is transactional, though if another Republican endorsed Graham, they'd be tarred and feathered.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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“Smut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smut. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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