SMUT Synonyms: 172 Similar and Opposite Words

smut 1 of 2

noun

Definition of smut

as in soil

foul matter that mars the purity or cleanliness of something once a year they cleaned all of the smut out of the chimney

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as in grossness

the quality or state of being obscene the talk-show host is famous for shows filled with smut and scandal

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verb

as in to dirty

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Recent Examples of smut

Noun

Is the perfect gift a painting (too European), a symphony (way too European), a bespoke work of jingoistic smut about Uncle Sam and the Statue of Liberty? — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 22 June 2026 Your e-mail is overrun with spam, scams, and smut. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 But the app remained glitchy, the glass smuts easily, and the device still feels less than fully baked at the moment, especially at its price. — Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 7 Apr. 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 See All Example Sentences for smut

Recent Examples of Synonyms for smut

Noun

In Richard’s hands, Creole culture is rooted and migrant, soil and air.

— Stephen Kearse, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026
The footpad cannot extract energy from chemically inert surfaces such as plastic, glass, soil, or organic tissue, prompting the team to add a small onboard supercapacitor to buffer power across dead zones.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 8 Oct. 2026

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But Paddy’s isn’t Sudz, and the Gang’s efforts to soft-pedal their antics to be more in line with those mainstream bars devolved into typical Sunny-style hostility and off-putting grossness.

— Dennis Perkins, Entertainment Weekly, 28 July 2026
All your Dad has to do is fill it and drink—the microfilter membrane will do the rest by removing chlorine odors, dirt, bacteria, and any other grossness floating around in there.

— Francesca Krempa, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026

Definition of grossness

Noun

There was like ten minutes of just chaos, with kids throwing dirt everywhere and getting excited to get little seeds put in their hands, and then being able to bring their plant home, and take care of it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
The ball fell to the dirt, allowing Harris to score and Albies to get to third for his first career postseason triple.

— Chad Bishop, AJC.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of dirt

Noun

The diaries—particularly in Julian Sachs’s unexpurgated version, which captures Pavese’s alternating earnestness, archness, and pungent vulgarity—pose something of a problem.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Community outrage about the image, along with online posts calling the mayor a host of vulgarities, spilled into a recent council meeting and is inflaming political divisions within College Park.

— Reed Williams, AJC.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of vulgarity

Verb

Following Tuesday’s baseline dust-up after a foul on Fever guard Sophie Cunningham, Las Vegas Aces star A’ja Wilson confronted a fan, leading Cloud to take to Threads and smear both the Indiana Fever organization and the spectator.

— Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Sweat glistened on the white foundation smeared across her face.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of smear

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As feminists fought patriarchy’s attempt to render women vulnerable socially and leave us dependent on men for money and more, the all-too-human inevitability of vulnerability and dependence got lost in the muck.

— Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 18 Sep. 2026
The film could have only benefited from narrowing its scope away from all the government muck, an attempt to flesh out a mythology for its villains that are scarier simply as faceless, mysterious weapons of mass destruction.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of muck

Noun

Shawn Seaman on Monday told KDKA about some of the incidents that involve young people entering local businesses, yelling obscenities and racial slurs and then running out.

— Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2026
That's how every criminal statute (including obscenity) works.

— Robert Steinbuch, Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026

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