smuttiness

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smut

(smŭt)

a. A particle of dirt or soot: "the smoke and flames blowing from the lantern which peppered him with large black smuts" (Joyce Cary).

b. A smudge made by soot, smoke, or dirt.

2. Sexually explicit or prurient language or material, such as books or movies.

3. See smut fungus.

v. smut·ted, smut·ting, smuts

v.tr.

1. To blacken or smudge, as with smoke or grime.

2. To affect (a plant) with smut fungus.

v.intr.

To be or become blackened or smudged.

[From Middle English smotten, smutten, to defile.]

smut′ti·ly adv.

smut′ti·ness n.

smut′ty adj.

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Noun	1.	smuttiness - the state of being dirty with soot sootiness dirtiness, uncleanness - the state of being unsanitary
	2.	smuttiness - obscenity in speech or writing dirtiness bawdiness, lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity - the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

smuttiness

noun

1. The condition or state of being dirty:

dirtiness, filth, filthiness, foulness, griminess, grubbiness, squalor, uncleanliness, uncleanness.

2. The quality or state of being obscene:

bawdiness, coarseness, dirtiness, filthiness, foulness, grossness, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, scurrility, scurrilousness, vulgarity, vulgarness.

Slang: raunch, raunchiness.

Translations

بَذاءَه

obscénnost

sjofelhed

Schmutz

obscénité

klám

sjofelheter svineri

obscénnosť

müstehcenlik

淫秽

smuttiness

[ˈsmʌtɪnɪs] N (= crudity) → obscenidad f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

smuttiness

n (fig) → Schmutz m; (of joke, language) → Anstößigkeit f, → Unflätigkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

smut

(smat) noun

vulgar or indecent talk etc. There is too much smut on television nowadays!

ˈsmutty adjective

(of a conversation, film etc) indecent. vulgar: He could not be prevented from telling smutty stories.

ˈsmuttiness noun

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