smutted

past tense of smut

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for smutted
Verb
  • In 2012 an angler pulled a brown bullhead out of a lake on the Vermont-Quebec border with what looked like tar smeared across its skin.
    John Drake, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • The women went to the bathroom to mop the bottoms of their eyes, where their makeup was smeared from crying.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Verb
  • It was blackened, charred, the conductor that had drawn the single precise punch of lightning.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026
  • Elephant Fire The Elephant Fire, burning since July 11 in the Tahoe National Forest, has blackened nearly 14,000 acres in Sierra, Plumas and Lassen counties, and is 92% contained.
    Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2026
Verb
  • Sacramento argued in court that most of her items were soiled and therefore garbage.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2026
  • The establishment remained closed after a reinspection, during which health inspectors observed unresolved violations including food stored at unsafe temperatures, multiple flies in the kitchen, soiled flooring under cooking equipment among others.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 June 2026
Verb
  • The color was also gently smudged below her lower lashes, winging ever so faintly upward at the outer corner.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 20 July 2026
  • Loose waves and smudged eye makeup, sharpened with pink at the inner corners, kept the effect closer to one of her stage looks.
    Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 3 July 2026
Verb
  • The same river that was savagely polluted by the mining industry, devastating the ancestral oasis of Quillagua.
    Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
  • But stars aren’t the only things that fail to show up when the sky is polluted with light; fireflies, those flashing, nostalgic symbols of summer, often skip the party too.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • Working alongside collaborators including Timbaland, Static Major, Bud’dha, Rapture Stewart, Eric Seats, and Stephen Garrett, Aaliyah helped craft a sound that blurred the boundaries between R&B, hip-hop, pop, soul, and electronic music.
    Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • In Detroit, which has dealt with some of the worst conditions in the country, the smoke has almost entirely blurred the city’s skyline.
    Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • Such shenanigans are more or less expected, and certainly haven’t forever sullied the American soccer fan base, at least here at home.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
  • Soap invited its viewers to take jabs at the genre in a time when the soap opera’s reputation had already been sullied in the American mind.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
Verb
  • More than two dozen California Democrats are confronting the FCC over its rare early review of Disney’s ABC station licenses, calling the process ideologically tainted and aimed at punishing critical media coverage.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2026
  • Why must everything be tainted by the overinflated ego of Cankles Muldoon?
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
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“Smutted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smutted. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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