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Another word for smut

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Noun

  1. Something that is offensive to accepted standards of decency

      1. (Archaic) The occupation of a bawd
      2. Risqué, coarse, or obscene language.
      1. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
      2. Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth
      3. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
      1. Disgusting garbage or refuse.
      2. Something, such as language or printed matter, considered obscene, prurient, or immoral.
      3. Disgustingly offensive dirt, garbage, etc.
      1. An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
      2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
      3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
      1. (Uncountable) The quality of being profane.
      2. (Countable) Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
      3. Something profane; esp., profane language or the use of profane language
      1. Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.
      2. An example of ribald language or humor
      1. Obscenity or obsession with the obscene, esp. with excrement or excretion, in literature
      2. The study of feces or of fossil excrement
      3. Obscene language or literature, especially that dealing pruriently or humorously with excrement and excretory functions.
      1. The state or quality of being vulgar, crude, coarse, unrefined, etc.
      2. A vulgar act, habit, usage in speech, etc.
      3. Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety.
      1. Material or a performance that is sexually explicit or evocative:
      2. Raunchy things
      3. Lewdness; vulgarity; obscenity.
    See also:

    decent

Verb

  1. To soil with foreign matter

    See also:

    clean

    marks

  2. To contaminate the reputation of

      1. To cast aspersions upon; speak badly of.
      2. To make filthy; dirty; soil
      3. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
      1. To smear.
      2. To smear over; bedaub; soil
      1. To stain; sully:
      2. To bring dishonor to; sully
      3. To make dirty; soil
      1. (Figuratively) To asperse with calumny or reproach; shend.
      2. To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance.
      3. To soil by spattering.
      1. To hurt or damage by slander, libel, etc.
      2. To become dark or black:
      3. To coat (fish or meat, for example) with pepper and other spices and then quickly sear in a very hot skillet, thereby producing meat that is black on the outside but tender on the inside.
      1. To cover or obscure with clouds:
      2. To show sorrow, worry, or anger:
      3. To become dark, obscure, or less transparent:
      1. (Archaic) To blacken
      2. To disparage; belittle:
      3. To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame:
      1. To become soiled.
      2. To make or become dirty; soil; tarnish; stain
      3. To stain or tarnish with dishonor.
      1. To apply (a ) to, so as to leave a coating, mark, etc.
      2. To spread or daub (a surface, for example) with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance.
      3. To cover, daub, or soil with something greasy, sticky, or dirty
      1. To become smudged or blurred:
      2. To make dirty, especially in one small area:
      3. To fill (an orchard or an inhabited area) with dense smoke from a smudge pot in order to prevent damage from frost or to repel insects.
      1. To smirch or stain
      2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
      3. To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
      1. To come forth in drops or small amounts:
      2. To spot, splash, or soil with drops or small amounts:
      3. To splash, spot, or soil with such drops or blobs
      1. To change the appearance of (wood, glass, etc.) by applying a dye, pigment, etc.
      2. To change the color of (a piece of wood, for example) by applying a stain.
      3. To discolor, soil, or spot:
      1. To defile; taint:
      2. (Obs.) To become sullied
      3. To soil, stain, tarnish, or besmirch, now esp. by disgracing
      1. To affect or associate with something undesirable or reprehensible:
      2. (Obs.) To sully or stain
      3. To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance:
      1. To dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt:
      2. To lose luster; become discolored:
      3. To dull the luster of or discolor the surface of (a metal) as by exposure to air
    Idioms:
    See also:

    attack

    clean

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Another word for smut

Noun

  1. Filth

      1. Material, such as gravel or slag, from which metal is extracted in mining.
      2. Any unclean or soiling matter, as mud, dust, dung, trash, etc.; filth
      3. A filthy or soiling substance, such as mud or dust.
      1. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
      2. Black earth containing decaying matter, used as a fertilizer
      3. Anything unclean or degrading; dirt; filth
      1. An English surname​, probably derived from Old Norse grimr or grimmr
      2. Black dirt or soot, especially such dirt clinging to or ingrained in a surface.
      3. Dirt, esp. sooty dirt, rubbed into or covering a surface, as of the skin
    See also:

    filth

  2. Pornography

      1. Anything considered as foul as this; esp., anything viewed as grossly indecent or obscene
      2. Disgustingly offensive dirt, garbage, etc.
      3. Something, such as language or printed matter, considered obscene, prurient, or immoral.
      1. An indecent act, statement, etc.
      2. Something showing lack of decency; something such as a word that is indecent
      3. Lack of decency; the property or degree of being indecent
      1. An obscene remark, act, event, etc.
      2. Indecency, lewdness, or offensiveness in behavior, expression, or appearance.
      3. Something, such as a word, act, or expression, that is indecent or lewd.
      1. Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.
      2. An example of ribald language or humor
    See also:

    pornography

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Sentence Examples

  • The other two parasites, smut and bunt, affect principally the grain.

  • Smut of wheat, Ustilago Tritici, infects the host at the time of flowering.

  • Barley is liable to smut and the other fungus diseases which attack wheat, and the insect pests which prey on the two plants are also similar.

  • Encouragement to seedgrowing is given by the holding of seed fairs, and bulletins are issued on weeds, the methods of treating seed-wheat against smut and on other subjects.

  • Of these the rust, smut and bunt fungi are by far the most common and the most destructive.

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