to smut
- verb
- /smʌt/
- Offensive
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- Critics accused the film of smutting what was once an innocent story.
Examples
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His attempts at humor only served to smut the conversation.
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He loves to smut up his stories with crude jokes.
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Some editors feel the new lyrics smut the original song.
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Don't smut the reputation of our organization!
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The author decided to smut his children's book by including inappropriate jokes.
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Many critics believe the movie was smut that catered to the lowest common denominator.
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The artist was accused of wanting to smut his work with unnecessary sexual themes.
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A disease of grain caused by a fungus that makes dark powder inside the husks
- Specialized
A disease of rice that covers the grains with a green powder of fungus spores
- Specialized
A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark streaks and black dust
- Specialized
A disease of wheat and other grasses that makes dark powdery streaks on leaves and stems
- Specialized
A disease of wheat or barley that turns the grain head into a powder of fungus
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A fungal disease that makes corn or sorghum flowers turn into a black spore mass covered by a thin skin
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A disease caused by a fungus that makes black blisters on onion leaves and young plants
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A small living thing that grows on plants and makes black dusty spots often on wheat or corn
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A disease that affects wheat and similar grains, turning grains into dark, smelly masses
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Plant disease that attacks wheat leaves and stems, causing dark streaks and lower crop yields
How Obscene
Surface Forms
Etymology
Smut used as a verb meaning to make something obscene comes from the word's old sense of 'making dirty'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of adding 'moral dirt' to a story, which is why to 'smut' something is to make it indecent.