United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783 1872)
To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively;
Noun
French statesman (1560-1641)
Noun
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
Verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
Verb
make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
Verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone''s reputation"
v. t.
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.
v. i.
To become soiled or tarnished.
n.
Soil; tarnish; stain.
Sully
Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
Sully
Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.
Sully
A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation.
To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively;
To become soiled or tarnished.
Soil; tarnish; stain.
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I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.
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