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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smutty
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But let's keep the smutty remarks to ourselves.
▪ He could not join in the telling of smutty jokes or the foraging expeditions for willing females.
▪ Our discussions were perhaps too frank and our jokes too smutty.
▪ There were smutty jokes, crossings out and misspellings.
▪ Vologsky himself became the butt for smutty jokes and innuendoes.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smutty

Smutty \Smut"ty\, a. [Compar. Smuttier; superl. Smuttiest.]

  1. Soiled with smut; smutted.

  2. Tainted with mildew; as, smutty corn.

  3. Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying.

    The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd.
    --Smollett. [1913 Webster] -- Smut"ti*ly, adv. -- Smut"ti*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smutty

1590s, "soiled with smut" (of grain); 1660s, "indecent," from smut + -y (2). Related: Smuttily; smuttiness. Smutty-nosed in ornithology means "having black nostrils."\n

Wiktionary
smutty

a. 1 Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty. 2 obscene, indecent.

WordNet
smutty

adj. characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: filthy, foul, nasty]

Usage examples of "smutty".

He was an amusing rogue, knowing by heart a quantity of erotic songs and of smutty stories which he could tell in the most laughable manner.

Mirris was a tasteless brassy purveyor of blue material and smutty sight gags.

Joey Mirris was a tasteless brassy purveyor of blue material and smutty sight gags.

The mother was his best ally, ever quick to support him with smutty remarks that she would pronounce in some exaggerated, parodic manner, and in her puerile English.

As Katherine approached she found that the house before which it stood bore the number she sought, and on reaching it she found the door held open by a little smutty girl, the very lowest type of slavey, with unkempt hair, and a rough holland apron of the grimiest aspect.

As Katherine approached she found that the house before which it stood bore the number she sought, and on reaching it she found the door held open by a little smutty girl, the very lowest type of slavey, with unkempt hair, and a rough holland apron of the grimiest aspect.

He was an amusing rogue, knowing by heart a quantity of erotic songs and of smutty stories which he could tell in the most laughable manner.

It is a crying shame, ain't it, how some men feel they've got to say smutty things about newly married folks?

When she was fourteen years old her brother Sean had taught her a smutty rhyme about Mata Hari.

There were fish stalls, drinking dives, a tiny honkytonk for the fishermen, a pool room, an arcade of slot machines and smutty peep shows.

There had been her own problem of penis envy, for instance, and this she illustrated with some smutty stories about her childhood.