Smutty vs Brutish - What's the difference?
smutty | brutish | Related terms |
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.
Smutty is a related term of brutish.
As adjectives the difference between smutty and brutish
is that smutty is soiled with smut; blackened, dirty while brutish is of, or in the manner of a brute.smutty
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Adjective
(er)brutish
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Quotations
* 1651 , (Thomas Hobbes), *: No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish , and short. * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy *: The haggard despair of Cotton-factory, Coal-mine operatives, Farm-labourers, in these days, is painful to behold; but not so painful, hideous to the inner sense, as the brutish god-forgetting Profit-and-Loss Philosophy, and Life-theory, which we hear jangled on all hands of us […] * {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty , date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(The Economist)citation, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
