How to Use smut in a Sentence

smut

noun
  • Smut is not allowed in this house.
  • Your e-mail is overrun with spam, scams, and smut.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Corn smut makes pale, shining, swollen galls that burst and release powdery black spores.
    The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
  • There are so many of us who make fanart of our favorite fics, and a lot of the time that involves smut.
    Aja Romano, Vox, 5 Dec. 2018
  • Excessive moisture can cause corn smut, a type of fungus that grows on the ears.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however.
    Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Curiel uses the corn smut in the chile relleno in the form of huitlacoche esquites, too.
    Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • This cozy, snacky monster romance is both hilarious and full of smut.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Most of the reading was of a higher quality than smut however.
    David James, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Grilled corn with caviar and creme fraiche flavored with the Mexican corn smut called huitlacoche.
    Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
  • This is bermudagrass smut, a disease that attacks specifically the seed heads in bermuda turf.
    Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 June 2025
  • If necessary, destroy affected plants to keep smut from spreading.
    The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 5 Apr. 2016
  • In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And at Maya, most diners found a $55 check average as unpalatable as corn smut.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • In fact, smut is one of the only forms of speech the government consistently regulates.
    Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2018
  • From smut readers to hockey lovers to Pedro Pascal, everyone seems to be a fan.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Some of the most common diseases affecting sweet corn are Northern corn leaf blight, common rust, and common smut.
    Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Spicy BookTok is the sister kingdom to the smut queens of Bookstagram.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2022
  • At the time, OpenAI told the Journal that its adult mode would be smut and not pornography.
    Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But this anthology is more subversive than a satisfying soupçon of smut.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • But in the absence of more impressive output, Musk is more or less stuck trying impress people with digital smut.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The prized delicacy can be found on tostadas at Tumerico in Tucson, where where the restaurant also sells the corn smut in jars.
    Priscilla Totiyapungprasert, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Choosing biblical subjects allowed Gentileschi to repel charges of smut.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2021
  • What started as sincere smut being read for a laugh around Morton’s kitchen table has turned into a literary adventure.
    Brianna Wellen, Chicago Reader, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The Valentine’s Day designs include one for book lovers, smut readers, hearts, pink plaid and an advocacy one on human rights.
    Noelle Alviz-Gransee february 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
    Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • During an opening preview, there were tacos filled with saucy birria and others laced with crispy cheese, huitlacoche (corn smut) and mushrooms ($13 for three).
    Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 10 Sep. 2019
  • In the series, Eve Googles the term after her friend jokingly calls her the same name, which leads her to the internet’s iceberg tip of online smut.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Users have also commented that the audio elements of the current version of Grok Imagine have made for improved smut.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The British hosts' deadpan commentary on this singularly unsexy smut is liable to draw actual tears of laughter.
    Emma Dibdin New York Times, Star Tribune, 2 Aug. 2020

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