How to Use smut in a Sentence

smut

noun

• Smut is not allowed in this house.
• There are so many of us who make fanart of our favorite fics, and a lot of the time that involves smut.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
• Who knew reading soft-core smut could be life-changing?
  — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 18 May 2018
• Spicy BookTok is the sister kingdom to the smut queens of Bookstagram.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
• Bermudagrass smut shows up in early to mid-summer each year.
  — Neil Sperry, star-telegram, 13 July 2017
• Corn smut makes pale, shining, swollen galls that burst and release powdery black spores.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
• More cases take the detective’s attention: a teenage girl is found slain in a park; a smut peddler falls to death from a roof.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• Grilled corn with caviar and creme fraiche flavored with the Mexican corn smut called huitlacoche.
  — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• Short of real smut, why cover up such objects of desire?
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• The prized delicacy can be found on tostadas at Tumerico in Tucson, where where the restaurant also sells the corn smut in jars.
  — Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
• In the series, Eve Googles the term after her friend jokingly calls her the same name, which leads her to the internet’s iceberg tip of online smut.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
• Most of the reading was of a higher quality than smut however.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
• In fact, smut is one of the only forms of speech the government consistently regulates.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
• During an opening preview, there were tacos filled with saucy birria and others laced with crispy cheese, huitlacoche (corn smut) and mushrooms ($13 for three).
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• If necessary, destroy affected plants to keep smut from spreading.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
• Nevada's notorious Sheri's Ranch has kitted out the room with smart home tech, letting punters create their own smut films using voice-control.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
• Taken as a whole, this vast trove of smut is the Kinsey Report of our time, shedding light on the multiplicity of erotic desires and sexual behaviors in our midst.
  — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 11 June 2017
• What started as sincere smut being read for a laugh around Morton’s kitchen table has turned into a literary adventure.
  — Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
• At the same time, events indicate that Brendan’s lifelong easy access to smut has left him with some disgraceful notions about women and intimacy.
  — New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
• The British hosts' deadpan commentary on this singularly unsexy smut is liable to draw actual tears of laughter.
  — Emma Dibdin New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020
• But this anthology is more subversive than a satisfying soupçon of smut.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Choosing biblical subjects allowed Gentileschi to repel charges of smut.
  — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
• The upshot seems both obvious and hard to argue with: In a society with so much to answer for, so much real indecency and genuine cause for moral outrage, why the uproar over a few minutes of amateur smut?
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2021
• The grill turned a Caesar salad into a dank brown and green mess unrecognizable as a Caesar or a salad, and a stiff, dry rabbit roulade came with a huitlacoche custard that sapped its namesake of its corn-smut funkiness.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
• That's how my job eventually descended into harlotry: through the endless cat-and-mouse game of porntrepreneurs subverting Google's anti-smut policies.
  — Lucas Peterson, GQ, 22 May 2017
• The idea was that open Internet platforms where smut prevailed seemed to enjoy more protection in law than those entrepreneurial outfits that wanted to create family-friendly zones.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 25 June 2019
• The proliferation of smut that features phony stepsiblings, or a fake stepparent with a stepson or stepdaughter, is evidence of our appetite for the outrageous.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 19 Jan. 2023
• Head here for contemporary interpretations of Mexican food like spaghetti with huitlacoche sauce, made from corn smut, a fungal corn growth that adds nutrients and flavor.
  — Dyan MacHan, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2017
• The latter features that elusive ingredient known as Mexican truffle or - more graphically - corn smut.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2019
• This phrase is applied to newspapers which delight in sensations, crime, scandal, smut, funny pictures, caricatures and malicious or frivolous gossip about persons and things of no public concern.
  — Nicholas Lemann, The New York Review of Books, 27 Feb. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024