smut
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Among the pet projects for the new guard was the library, which council members alleged was little better than a smut shop because the young adult section featured books about puberty and LGBTQ+ issues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2025
To her million-plus Twitter followers, right-wing influencer Brigitte Gabriel groused, "Children should not be watching this smut!"
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
He settled on using one from corn smut, a fungal pathogen.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 18, 2023
Thursday’s announcement said Russia would “take all measures” to prevent contamination by wheat smut fungus and would suspend exports to China if it was found.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Through endless blobs of ghostly black smoke he sped, the hanging smut wafting against the smooth plexiglass nose of the ship like an evil, damp, sooty vapor against his cheeks.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Fungal rusts and smuts that are proliferating in our increasingly warmer and wetter world endanger the world’s coffee supply.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 15, 2022
By the time of “Casanova,” Fellini had more or less forsaken actuality, with its risks and smuts, for the controllable universe of the studio—specifically, for the cavernous soundstages of Cinecittà, in Rome.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 17, 2020
In addition, the basidiomycota includes smuts and rusts, which are important plant pathogens, and toadstools.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Some are parasitic, like the smuts that attack our crops.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2010
He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here.
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
Thumbnail Operas Long have composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hilliard disapproved: "A picture a little shadowed may be borne withal for the rounding of it, but so greatly smutted or darkened as some use disgrace it, and is like truth ill told."
From Time Magazine Archive
"What a sight the lad looks!" she would exclaim sometimes, taking back the baby, that was smutted on the face from his father's kisses and play.
From Sons and Lovers by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
I do not see a mask or a smutted face present; and there is not a pane of glass broken in your windows.
From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Monumental inscriptions are smutted and half-obliterated, but the scurf protects the monument.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various
If I went up to dress, they would shoot into my collar-box, or amongst my clean shirts, smutting them all over.
From Humorous Readings and Recitations In prose and verse by Various
It should seem also, that they sometimes heightened their black colour, by smutting their bodies; as a mark was left behind on any clean substance, such as white paper, when they handled it.
Its mighty uncertain how long he will tarry; for lie-yers live by talking; turning of words upside down, and wrong side outards, and reading words backards, and whitewashing black things, and smutting of white ones.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
To prevent the pots and kettles from smutting every thing they touch, each has a separate bag in which it is packed and carried.
From How to Camp Out by John Mead Gould
