How to Use smutty in a Sentence

smutty

adjective
  • Not salacious, or smutty, but an honest look at things that affect us.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Salmond governed Scotland with a twinkle in his eye and had a fondness for smutty jokes.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Her world is a Saturday morning cartoon crossed with a smutty joke.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
  • Neither prudish nor, for the most part, smutty, the love scenes come straight out of middle-of-the-road romance novels.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
  • On apps like Quinn and Dipsea (among a growing number of others), people can listen to spicy, sexy, smutty stories all day long.
    — Jodi McAlister, PEOPLE, 8 Nov. 2025
  • But his filth, absurdity, and sense of seeing things from a different perspective felt ever-present in my smutty way of being in the world.
    — Daniel Scheffler, SPIN, 4 May 2022
  • Their role better resembles that of cartoons, especially smutty ones.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Fueling their smutty little project, however, are some serious dreams.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Robert inherently understands that in this series and exploits it to her own fabulously smutty ends.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This is part of a familiar pattern, and one that speaks to my new habit of using smutty books as masturbation material on a weekly basis.
    — Rebecca Fearn, Refinery29, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Hunter’s subjects–in all of their goofy and smutty glory– are glowing with an aura of genuine internet optimism that feels enviable.
    — Cassidy George, Vogue, 2 June 2022
  • Shygirl utilizes her deep vibrato and smutty lyricism to generate energy that’s raunchy and infectious.
    — Keegan Brady, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2021
  • This isn’t about literature being titillating, smutty or profane.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Outdoor equipment, smutty card games, enterprise software, and the dictionary are political.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 26 June 2019
  • The meter goes jaunty-iambic, smutty-iambic, with an ABAB rhyme scheme, as if to emphasize the mechanical, tum-pum nature of the thing.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Levinson’s series has long trafficked as a kind of smutty after-school special, not unlike how Ryan Murphy delves into some of the nastiest gore imaginable and then chastises us for watching.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • His work — rueful, cerebral, gloriously smutty — includes trance poetry and automatic writing.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 5 May 2020
  • There's no shame in admitting that one of the draws of HBO has always been the somewhat smutty stuff, and new French-language drama The Seduction looks to deliver on that.
    — PC Magazine, 14 Nov. 2025
  • As the title implies, there’s virtually no action — the show consists of the meandering, generally pointless, often smutty conversations that take place while the characters wait for something to happen.
    — Mike Hale, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Many from both parties, and the South, found Lincoln’s smutty frontier jokes and cackling enjoyment of lowbrow humor grotesquely unpresidential—never mind his uncombable hair and tendency to throw one leg over an arm of his chair.
    — Edward Achorn, Time, 16 Feb. 2020
  • An ancient quarry near Hadrian’s Wall in northern England, for example, has offered a smutty glimpse into the lives of the Roman soldiers who built the famous fortification.
    — Fox News, 30 Nov. 2019
  • The smutty gay hockey show is largely about closeted athletes Ilya (Connor Storrie) and Shane (Hudson Williams), but at the end of episode five, the series’ secondary couple goes public.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Moments of physical intimacy between his protagonists are often relayed in rigid and frustratingly inexpressive language, which occasionally veers into the tiringly smutty.
    — Taran Dugal, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Hoping to better understand the demand for smutty scares, Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville (Olivia Williams), spend an interminable evening at the theater surrounded by people throwing popcorn and making out while the topless woman onscreen is tortured and killed in a masked man’s dungeon.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The first season of the series, based on Elle Kennedy’s smutty YA romance The Deal, follows Briar University juniors Hannah and Garrett, who pretend to date before their feelings for each other get all too real.
    — Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 29 May 2026

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