as in vulgar
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
a novel that does a good job of rendering the gutter language of that stratum of society
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Recent Examples of gutter
Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
Pay special attention to any downspouts to ensure that the snow doesn't create a blockage in your gutter system.
—Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2024
David Benedict, Variety, 26 May 2023
Crews will be setting catch basins to grade, forming up curb and gutter cutout areas, and beginning to form up driveway aprons.
—Linda Gandee, cleveland, 15 June 2020
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Noun
What to do for your garden and yard: Clean your gutters.
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And for the umpteen transitions, tall, slim screens glide across the stage like screen-wipes displaying distractingly different, hyper-realist close-up images ranging from location-setting photos to a (worryingly out of focus) video of a guttering candle.
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Deadpool & Wolverine was far more graphic and vulgar than previous Marvel Studios projects — but one of its especially dirty lines didn't make the cut.Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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With Election Day on the horizon, Elon Musk is leaning into violent and vulgar rhetoric.Bruna Horvath, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Several other troughs appeared to have been already filled and bulldozed over.Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2024
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Not so with axions; quantum interference patterns would result in the distribution of axions in a galaxy's dark matter halo to come in peaks and troughs, each extending thousands of light-years.Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Once again Skinner is in the ditch with goal share (minute sample size).Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Tragically, her life would end as the man who was stuck in a ditch pulled a gun on her, and fatally shot her.Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 29 Dec. 2024
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Finkelstein’s grandfather, Alfred Wiener, founded the Wiener Library, London’s most important Holocaust archive, and Finkelstein served on the commission that recommended a new memorial.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
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Robinson—whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lemmon—founded the anti-Islam English Defence League and has become a major far-right figure in the U.K., attracting thousands of supporters to rallies and garnering widespread criticism for his divisive anti-immigrant rhetoric.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Make sure to place the stopper over the drain because this mixture will fizz up and try to escape.Julia Mitchem, Architectural Digest, 30 Dec. 2024
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Use a tissue or bit of toilet paper to clear hair from the shower or tub drain after each bath.Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2024
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People search for human remains at a trench believed to be used as a mass grave on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Monday.Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2024
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For that next pilates class or HIIT circuit, wear an oversized silhouette from Anine Bing beneath a cool-girl trench and atop a cashmere hoodie.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2024
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Those signs can flux when sleep deprived, traveling or stressed at work as well.Sandee LaMotte, CNN, 31 Jan. 2020
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Next, clean and flux a shutoff valve for the cold side and slide it over the tubing end place and solder it in place.Steve Willson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Aug. 2018
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He was booked on charges of enticing a child under 16, distribution of obscene matter, and lascivious posing and exhibiting a child in the nude.Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of course, obscene content has been censored, and services that clearly broke intellectual property laws, like Napster, WikiLeaks, and The Pirate Bay were shuttered, but, for the average person, the internet remained broadly open in the United States.Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Gutter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gutter. Accessed 12 Jan. 2025.
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