smut-machine

Updated: May 6, 2025

Hence it is the commonest thing in the world to hear one editor abusing, like a pickpocket, an opposition brother; calling him a reptile a crawling thing a calumniator a hired vendor of lies; and his paper a smut-machine a vile engine of corruption, as base and degraded as the proprietor, &c.

Susanna Moodie - Roughing It in the Bush