Example Sentences

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She said she only hoped to clear her name, one the jury — in awarding nearly $3 million for defamation — agreed Trump had sullied.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2023

In the meantime, he said he would continue to challenge the "nonsense, hypocrisy, sloppy logic and group-think" that had sullied the world of sustainable finance, the post read.

From Reuters • Jul. 7, 2022

Or, perhaps it’s by eating food that the bat had sullied with its own spit, urine or faeces?

From Nature • Dec. 30, 2014

He later believed the westerns had sullied his reputation and claimed the scripts were written as a joke.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2013

It had brought loss to the government, distress to the people, and had sullied the good faith of Georgia.

From Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Stovall, Pleasant A.