Dirty
Dirty adjective - Depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society.
Usage example: some radio stations refused to play the song because of the dirty lyrics
Gutter and dirty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Gutter" instead an adjective "Dirty".
Gutter
Gutter adjective - Depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society.
Usage example: a novel that does a good job of rendering the gutter language of that stratum of society
Dirty and gutter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dirty" instead an adjective "Gutter".
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Her style is described as rough, dirty, something half picked up in gutter duels, but since she wins most of the time she's still fairly popular.
Source: Good Old Fisticuffs -
He knew that in a precinct full of Dirty Cops, not being down in the gutter with the rest of them meant you were almost certainly going to be killed, just in case you were thinking of ratting on everyone.
Source: Broken Pedestal
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