smuttier; smuttiest
1
: soiled or tainted with smut
especially
: affected with smut fungus
3
: resembling smut in appearance : sooty
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the movie was rated R because of some nude scenes and smutty dialogue
a street urchin with a smutty face
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Are any of these turns worth sitting through nine hours of smutty true crime recreations?
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
Novelist Emily Gould writes about the new genre of smutty books for The Cut.
—Alexi McCammond, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Has Colin been writing smutty real-person fic about his siblings under the pen name Julia Quinn?
—Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 16 May 2024
Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Sep. 2024
Novelist Emily Gould writes about the new genre of smutty books for The Cut.
—Alexi McCammond, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
Has Colin been writing smutty real-person fic about his siblings under the pen name Julia Quinn?
—Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 16 May 2024
Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
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“Smutty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smutty. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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smutty
adjective
smut·ty
ˈsmət-ē 
smuttier; smuttiest
1
: soiled or tainted with smut
a smutty face
2
: affected with smut fungus
smutty plants
3
: obscene sense 2, indecent
smutty jokes
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