Sully

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  • transitive verb. To mar the cleanness or luster of; soil or stain.
  • transitive verb. To defile; taint.
  • noun. Something that stains or spots.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To soil; stain; tarnish; defile.
  • Figuratively, to stain or tarnish morally.
  • To dim; darken.
  • To be or become soiled or tarnished.
  • noun. Soil; tarnish; spot.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To become soiled or tarnished.
  • transitive verb. To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively.
  • noun. Soil; tarnish; stain.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. to soil or stain; to dirty
  • verb. to damage or corrupt
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
  • verb. place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
  • verb. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
  • noun. United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
  • noun. French statesman (1560-1641)
  • Word Usage
    "July 5th, 2006 at 4: 53 pm seabiscuit says: sully is another one: unless he is getting paid the billion dollars that the ceo of exxon got to deny climate crisis is happening, what’s in it for him? why do it? why lie about the fate of the earth?"
    cross-reference
    contaminate  foul  soily  
    Form
    sullied  sullying  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Tully  cully  gulley  gully  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    abuse  attaint  bedaub  befoul  benasty  
    variant
    sullied  
    verb-form