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sully
1[ suhl-ee ]
verb (used with object)
- to soil, stain, or tarnish.
Synonyms: contaminate, blemish, taint
- to mar the purity or luster of; defile:
to sully a reputation.
verb (used without object)
- to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished.
noun
- Obsolete. a stain; soil.
Sully
2[ suhl-ee; French sy-lee ]
noun
- Ma·xi·mi·lien de Bé·thune [m, a, k-see-mee-, lyan, d, uh, bey-, tyn], Duc de, 1560–1641, French statesman.
- Thomas, 1783–1872, U.S. painter, born in England.
Sully
1/ sylli; ˈsʌlɪ /
noun
- SullyMaximilien de Béthune, Duc de15591641MFrenchPOLITICS: statesman Maximilien de Béthune (maksimiljɛ̃ də betyn), Duc de Sully. 1559–1641, French statesman; minister of Henry IV. He helped restore the finances of France after the Wars of Religion
sully
2/ ˈsʌlɪ /
verb
- to stain or tarnish (a reputation, etc) or (of a reputation) to become stained or tarnished
noun
- a stain
- the act of sullying
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Derived Forms
- ˈsulliable, adjective
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Other Words From
- sul·li·a·ble adjective
- un·sul·li·a·ble adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sully1
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Example Sentences
I begin to observe that it sounds as if Sully is in microcosm what Newman himself…but that is as far as I get.
In giving Sully a life, he gave the character some of his own life.
Sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown.
But he was also showing a gritty and sully city in a beautiful way.
The Sully people catalogue a variety of reactions to today's job numbers.
All day long I sully sheet after sheet of paper and beguile the tedious hours with the half-faded recollections of my childhood.
He sent Sully over to cement the good understanding of the two States by arguments and gifts to the leading courtiers.
Sully was represented at the Philadelphia Academy by one hundred and sixteen pictures.
No pains were spared to sully his character, to ruin his fortunes, and to render him an object of public indignation.
There are, nevertheless, three or four female heads, of an ethereal beauty-portraits in the manner of Sully.
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