How to Use smutty in a Sentence

smutty

adjective

• Not salacious, or smutty, but an honest look at things that affect us.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
• The meter goes jaunty-iambic, smutty-iambic, with an ABAB rhyme scheme, as if to emphasize the mechanical, tum-pum nature of the thing.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
• But in the following decades, despite her fame, Behn was scorned by critics who found her writing too smutty and scandalous for a woman.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• But in the following decades, despite her fame, Behn was scorned by critics who found her writing too smutty and scandalous for a woman.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• But his filth, absurdity, and sense of seeing things from a different perspective felt ever-present in my smutty way of being in the world.
  — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 4 May 2022
• Hunter’s subjects–in all of their goofy and smutty glory– are glowing with an aura of genuine internet optimism that feels enviable.
  — Cassidy George, Vogue, 2 June 2022
• Robert inherently understands that in this series and exploits it to her own fabulously smutty ends.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, for example, has offered a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification.
  — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2019
• Despite the notoriously awful quality of the prose in the three 50 Shades novels (titled the same as the movies) by E. L. James, the smutty subversion of feminist ideology seemed to be the main driver of their popularity.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
• Many from both parties, and the South, found Lincoln’s smutty frontier jokes and cackling enjoyment of lowbrow humor grotesquely unpresidential—never mind his uncombable hair and tendency to throw one leg over an arm of his chair.
  — Edward Achorn, Time, 16 Feb. 2020
• Shygirl utilizes her deep vibrato and smutty lyricism to generate energy that’s raunchy and infectious.
  — Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
• Fueling their smutty little project, however, are some serious dreams.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Outdoor equipment, smutty card games, enterprise software, and the dictionary are political.
  — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 June 2019
• As the title implies, there’s virtually no action — the show consists of the meandering, generally pointless, often smutty conversations that take place while the characters wait for something to happen.
  — Mike Hale, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• This isn’t about literature being titillating, smutty or profane.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• His work — rueful, cerebral, gloriously smutty — includes trance poetry and automatic writing.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 5 May 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024