Despite its literary merits, the novel's occasional smuttiness kept it off the school reading list.

The editor hesitated before including the smuttinesses in the anthology, worried about offending readers.

Workers smutty the barrels with coal dust every morning.

The smutty magazine was hidden behind the stack of newspapers, its stained cover hinting at indecent content.

The comedian's off-color jokes smuttied the evening, leaving some guests uncomfortable.

He smutties every conversation with a tasteless joke.

He kept smuttying his stories to get a reaction from the crowd.