The word 'smut' is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to dirt, grime or other impurities that soil or stain something. It can also refer to obscene or vulgar material, such as pornography. Example: The farmer wiped the smut off the freshly picked corn before loading it onto the truck. Example: The newspaper refused to publish the politician's smutty remarks.
Veto it, and his conservative opponents in November's presidential election will depict him as soft on smut.
The Supreme Court upheld its rules in 1978, despite their impingement on free speech, on the basis of a law banning smut on the radio.
His "Two Young Ladies"—a naked beauty contemplating a skeleton teetered just on the right side of smut for 19th-century tastes.
China had justified the ban, in force since 1972, on the grounds that American wheat imports would infect local crops with TCK smut, a fungus.
The judge concurred.Malaysians have grown used to such smut in the courtroom.
Even national news channels ran some of the clips, earning a rebuke from the broadcasting regulator.In Malaysia, smut videos tend to be more about politics and less about show business per se.
Restoring it would require a visit to the police and a written pledge not to text smut again.In this section What are they afraid of?
And preventing credit-card companies from allowing people to buy smut online would be pointless: plenty is available free.Enforcing a ban would be tough, but is it even worthwhile?
In February the government decided to take on the glut of smut online and floated the idea of banning violent or degrading pornography, which some Icelanders take to mean most of it.
Its main Chinese competitor, Baidu, is just as good at finding smut.
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