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Smutty vs Sleazy - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between smutty and sleazy

is that smutty is soiled with smut; blackened, dirty while sleazy is marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.

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.

    • sleazy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  • Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

    • Synonyms

    * skeezy

    Derived terms

    * sleaze