smut-machine

And when the chicane and intrigue of the more clever among them roused his indignation he would exclaim: "They're putting me through the smut-machine!"

On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller

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.

Roughing It in the Bush 1852

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.

Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844