smuttier; smuttiest
1
: soiled or tainted with smut
especially
: affected with smut fungus
3
: resembling smut in appearance : sooty
Examples of smutty in a Sentence
the movie was rated R because of some nude scenes and smutty dialogue
a street urchin with a smutty face
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There's no shame in admitting that one of the draws of HBO has always been the somewhat smutty stuff, and new French-language drama The Seduction looks to deliver on that.
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PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
On apps like Quinn and Dipsea (among a growing number of others), people can listen to spicy, sexy, smutty stories all day long.
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Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
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PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
On apps like Quinn and Dipsea (among a growing number of others), people can listen to spicy, sexy, smutty stories all day long.
—Jodi McAlister, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
This is part of a familiar pattern, and one that speaks to my new habit of using smutty books as masturbation material on a weekly basis.
—Rebecca Fearn, Refinery29, 27 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for smutty
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“Smutty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smutty. Accessed 28 Nov. 2025.
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smutty
adjective
smut·ty
ˈsmət-ē 
smuttier; smuttiest
1
: soiled or tainted with smut
a smutty face
2
: affected with smut fungus
smutty plants
3
: obscene sense 2, indecent
smutty jokes
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