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smutty

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of smutty

1 depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
  • The movie was rated R because of some smutty dialogue.
Synonyms of smutty

bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, impure, indecent, lascivious, lewd, nasty, obscene, ribald, vulgar, wanton
Words Related to smutty

broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive

earthy, scatological

immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming

depraved, kinky, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked

exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome

abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting

distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant

abusive, scurrilous
Near Antonyms of smutty

priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian

correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

innocuous, inoffensive

appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable

immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal
Antonyms of smutty

clean, decent, nonobscene, wholesome
2 not clean
  • a street urchin with a smutty face
Synonyms of smutty

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
Words Related to smutty

contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted

insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed

greasy, gunky

littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, sleazy, squalid
Near Antonyms of smutty

clear, limpid, pure

cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

bleached, purified, whitened

bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched

taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesome
Antonyms of smutty

clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

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