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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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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
Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
My husband had no fondness for smut, for assaults on the sacred.
—Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
My friend Mike cuts single frames of smut into family features.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
The old diplomat was shaken to the core to discover that in their correspondence Mozart and his family and friends were gleefully given to silliness and smut.
—Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
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The rampant smut that blighted Times Square and the constellation of lowlifes who orbited around it were tackled in that neighborhood in the mid ’90s.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
My husband had no fondness for smut, for assaults on the sacred.
—Marie Ndiaye, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
My friend Mike cuts single frames of smut into family features.
—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2023
The old diplomat was shaken to the core to discover that in their correspondence Mozart and his family and friends were gleefully given to silliness and smut.
—Simon Callow, The New York Review of Books, 22 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smut
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In 2024, researchers published findings in the journal Nature that showed European permaculture projects cultivated soil that sequestered significantly more carbon than what is found on nearby traditional farms.Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2024
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This includes tender perennials like dahlias, cannas, gladiolus, agapanthus, and elephant ears. Plants in Fluctuating Temperatures In regions with frequent freeze-thaw cycles, especially in USDA Hardiness Zones 7 and 8, soil can shift and expose roots to damage.Macie Stump, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2024
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Instead, Walz seems to have little to say about factory farming dirtying the state’s waterways.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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Garments can be dirtied again by the elements if air-dried outside.Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2024
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Playing baseball outside left him with grass and dirt stuck in his curls.Jurnee Smollett, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2024
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Was this just because Rachel could no longer stand Sue getting dirt all over her face?Dalton Ross, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
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Whatever happened to elegant, elevated and epic language in lieu of vulgarities that flourish in the sewers and gutters of morality?Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
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Policy proposals aside, there's been name-calling, vulgarity, and plain old meanness.Jon LaPook, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2024
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The roads are smeared with a mulch of mud and wet leaves, and flooded in places by relentless rain.Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
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My shirt is covered in light brown stains, and greasy handprints smear my jeans.Nick Stockton, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2024
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Lovick, with friends Je-Quan Irving and Floyd Washington, cleaned out the muck and stocked the puddle with a 50-bag of goldfish from the neighborhood pet store.The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
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The mire covering Alicia Montero is the signature uniform of the impromptu army of volunteers who for a third day Friday shoveled and swept out the muck and debris that filled the small town of Chiva in Valencia after flash floods swept through the region.Teresa Medrano, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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These laws could also face an uphill battle in the courts, including the Supreme Court, which have shot down certain obscenity laws as unconstitutional.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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His speech was larded with obscenity and boastfulness.Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
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But the question of which artists to tar as complicit with their governments’ policies is not a simple one, and boycotts are a blunt instrument at best.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
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In one such instance, the Remain campaign had designed a poster intended to tar the Leave camp with the brush of extremism by showing Johnson inside the breast pocket of Nigel Farage, the leader of UKIP.Anand Menon, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2017
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“Smut.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smut. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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