smuttiness

Smuttiness is thought daring, when it is merely a cowardly form of scatology.

She'd been shunned by girls, fearful that the disgrace-the ludicrous, hilarious smuttiness of it all-would rub off on them.

So the defendants have gone to great lengths to emphasize the smuttiness of their workplace, while the offended party is strenuously arguing how tame it was.

How did this noun, now the byword of those disapproving of bawdiness, smuttiness, licentiousness and other manifestations of blatant sexual arousal, get its start in our language?

Thanks to the rampant libidos of both men - Walter's is a source of defensiveness, while Morris, the crowing nonhypocrite, flaunts his - the play takes on a casual smuttiness.

The pamphlet was notorious for its viciousness, and variously accused "Habbakuk Hilding" (Fielding) of literary theft, scandalousness, and smuttiness, while deriding his marriage to Mary Daniels.

Not being debarred from smuttiness, comic post cards repeat themselves less often than the joke columns in reputable magazines, but their basic subject-matter, the KIND of joke they are aiming at, never varies.

He also translates this smuttiness into the totemic letters SS, so that everything from Sesame Street to the Soviet missiles designated SS-N to the infamous German SS are co-conspirators.

She read Ms. Szymbor ska's "An Opinion on the Question of Pornography," about the smuttiness of all thinking, and "In Praise of My Sister," an ode to everyone who doesn't write poetry.

The New York Times called it "an overblown burlesque revue, right down to its giggly smuttiness ... Mr. Brooks's songs have a throwaway quality, as if they were dashed off on the day of the performance."

"He looks for that little bit of smuttiness, the little bit of corruptibility, the little tiny fetish for something that's going to cause trouble," said Baitz, whose play "The End of the Day" was directed by Elliott in June at the Williamstown Theater Festival in the Berkshires.