smut

An offensive or indecent word or phrase.

A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink.

Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales.

Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire.

Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores.

Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn.

Become affected with smut.

“the corn smutted and could not be eaten”

Make obscene.

“This line in the play smuts the entire act”

Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot.