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Another word for smut

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Noun

  1. Something that is offensive to accepted standards of decency

    See also:

    decent

Verb

  1. To soil with foreign matter

    See also:

    marks

    clean

  2. To contaminate the reputation of

    Idioms:
    See also:

    clean

    attack

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Another word for smut

Noun

  1. Filth

    See also:

    filth

  2. Pornography

    See also:

    pornography

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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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