Found 2 items, similar to Sullied.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: sullied
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]
sullied
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sully
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sullied
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["u]hlen to wallow, Sw. s["o]la to
bemire, Dan. s["o]le, 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.
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No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
--Atterbury.
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