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Appropriate to or from a squalid, degraded condition. For example, The language in that book belongs in the gutter. An antonym, out of the gutter, means “away from vulgarity or sordidness,” as in That joke was quite innocent; get your mind out of the gutter. This idiom uses gutter in the sense of “a conduit for filthy waste.” [Mid-1800s]

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Words nearby in the gutter

in the first place, in the flesh, in the flush of, in the fullness of time, in the groove, in the gutter, in the hands of, in the heat of, in the hole, in the hope, in the hot seat
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Words related to in the gutter

bankrupt, broke, destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, supplicant, abandoned, corrupt, debased, defiled, degenerate, degraded, depraved, deteriorated, dissipated, drunk, fast, perverted, reprobate
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