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List of meaning for sully

to ruin or damage

Sully, Thomas Sully(noun)

United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)

Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune(verb)

French statesman (1560-1641)

defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud(verb)

place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

"sully someone's reputation"

tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile(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"

defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch(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"

to make dirty people that sully our state parks with their trash

a once-gleaming marble interior sullied by decades of exposure to cigarette smoke

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