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Raunchy vs Smutty - What's the difference?

raunchy | smutty |

As adjectives the difference between raunchy and smutty

is that raunchy is very low class; inferior; inadequate while smutty is soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.

raunchy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very low class; inferior; inadequate.
  • With dishonorable, base and vulgar expression.
  • Having socially unacceptable sexual behavior.
  • Sexually seductive.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * raunch

    smutty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Soiled with smut; blackened, dirty.
  • *1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 62:
  • *:She caught up the corner of her skirt and lifted the smutty coffee-pot from the stove.
  • Obscene, indecent.
  • * Episode 12, The Cyclops
  • *:And what was it only one of the smutty yankee pictures Terry borrows off of Corny Kelleher. Secrets for enlarging your private parts.