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Smutty   Listen
adjective
Smutty  adj.  (compar. smuttier; superl. smuttiest)  
1.
Soiled with smut; smutted.
2.
Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.
3.
Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying. "The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd."





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"Smutty" Quotes from Famous Books



... returned presently to find him already generously smutty and touching and testing knobs and screws and levers with an expression of profound sagacity. When the bird-faced officer addressed a remark to him, he waved him aside with, "Nong comprong. ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
... share, to meet him at the train in the evening like any small clerk's wife, to help him carry the books and papers with which he was generally laden along the hot and dingy street, to make him tea from her little spirit kettle, and then to hear the news of the day in the shade of the little smutty back-garden, while the German charwoman who cooked for them had her way with the dinner—there was not an incident in the whole trivial procession that did not amuse and delight her. She renewed her youth; she escaped from the burdensome "glories of our birth, and state"; ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. I • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... subjection in which they would all be placed to him as the head of the family—a man used to the low ways of a trade, a man dirty and greasy, hardly in his right place at work in the library, the grandson of a blacksmith with brawny arms and smutty face—the ideas might ...
— There & Back • George MacDonald
... of a large number of cows, high feeding, smutty corn and ergotty pastures. In a small number of cows abortion may result from accidental injuries. Such cases are pure accidents and are not to be considered along with ...
— Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry • Pratt Food Co.
... of brandy) from the Brixton Temperance Bazaar. But in those simpler days the pavilion still existed; it was tended by agreeable waiters whose evening dress was mitigated by cheerful little straw hats, and an enormous multitude of valiant and smutty Cockney sparrows chirped and squeaked and begged and fluttered and fought, venturing to the very tables and feet of the visitors. And here, a little sobered from their first elation by much walking about and the presence of jam ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells


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