How to Use smut in a Sentence

smut

noun
  • Smut is not allowed in this house.
  • Your e-mail is overrun with spam, scams, and smut.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • Excessive moisture can cause corn smut, a type of fungus that grows on the ears.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Spread Me offers far more than weird smut, however.
    — Neil McRobert, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Curiel uses the corn smut in the chile relleno in the form of huitlacoche esquites, too.
    — Sara Rosenthal, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Grilled corn with caviar and creme fraiche flavored with the Mexican corn smut called huitlacoche.
    — Kathleen Purvis, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
  • From smut readers to hockey lovers to Pedro Pascal, everyone seems to be a fan.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 14 Jan. 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
  • At the time, OpenAI told the Journal that its adult mode would be smut and not pornography.
    — Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Valentine’s Day designs include one for book lovers, smut readers, hearts, pink plaid and an advocacy one on human rights.
    — Noelle Alviz-Gransee february 6, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Babygirl is as addicting as any romance page-turner and hotter than the most popular smut on the market, with a smart twist on female desire and power.
    — Helen Murphy, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Users have also commented that the audio elements of the current version of Grok Imagine have made for improved smut.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
  • This is a world where the morally grey MMCs (male main characters) become even more morally grey, and the smut even smuttier.
    — Rebecca Fearn, Refinery29, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Would Waters consider Heated Rivalry smut?
    — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
  • While some literary purists have panned Fennell and Robbie (who produced the film) for smut-ifying an icon of the American bookshelf, their critiques haven't seemed to sway audiences.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
  • As one of the stars of gay hockey smut — sorry, show — Heated Rivalry, Storrie’s overnight catapult into the spotlight has bestowed upon him a rabid fanbase of horny women.
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The grill turned a Caesar salad into a dank brown and green mess unrecognizable as a Caesar or a salad, and a stiff, dry rabbit roulade came with a huitlacoche custard that sapped its namesake of its corn-smut funkiness.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 July 2021
  • By 2010, the magazine was essentially family entertainment compared to the tidal wave of online smut, so a peek-a-boo pictorial of half-naked cybergals didn't seem so risqué.
    — Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 9 July 2025
  • As a result of the fervor and accolades, plenty of critics and fans are already ringing the Emmy bell for the series, hoping that, for the first time, gay hockey smut can net some hardware from the Television Academy.
    — Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 22 Dec. 2025
  • An especially intense contingent of splatter and smut creators came out of Germany, Japan, and Brazil, making works that were supposedly so disturbing that word of their existence spread further than the footage ever did.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • 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

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