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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sully \sul"ly\, v. t. imp.  p. p. sullied; p. pr.  vb. n.
   sullying. oe. sulien, as. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to
   g. suhle mire, sich, s"uhlen to wallow, sw. s"ola to
   bemire, dan. s"ole, goth. bisaulijan to defile.
   to soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken;
   -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to
   sully a person's reputation.
   1913 webster

         statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
                                                  --roscommon.
   1913 webster

         no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
                                                  --atterbury.
   1913 webster
see also:
sullied sullying 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sullied
     adj : especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged
           reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished
           reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" syn: besmirched,
            damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, tainted,
            tarnished
see also:
besmirched damaged flyblown spotted stained tainted 
tarnished 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sullied
     see sully
see also:
sully 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 moby thesaurus words for "sullied":
   bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, defiled, dirtied, drabbled,
   draggled, fouled, impure, indecent, maculate, smirched, smudged,
   soiled, spotted, stained, tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean,
   unvirginal, unvirtuous





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