Sully
['sʌlɪ]
Definition
(noun.) French statesman (1560-1641).
(noun.) United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872).
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Typed by Carlyle
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Soil, stain, tarnish, spot, blemish, dirty, contaminate.
Inputed by DeWitt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Soil, efface, dirty, taint, tarnish, spot, stain, spoil, disgrace, dishonor
ANT:Purify, cleanse, ennoble, dignify, signalize, glorify, honor
Edited by Juanita
Definition
v.t. to soil: to spot: to tarnish.—v.i. to be soiled:—pa.t. and pa.p. sull′ied.—n. spot: tarnish.
Typist: Maura
Examples
- As Morse had said when he first began seriously to study the subject on board the _Sully_, If it will go ten miles without stopping I can make it go around the globe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I shall sully the purity of your floor, said he, but you must excuse me for once. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I dare you to sully our name by a _mésalliance_! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower--breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The novelist may be excused from sullying his page with the record of their deeds. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Death itself, like the illimitable space, is beyond our sullying. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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