sullyin a sentence
sully as in: sully her reputation
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The politician's reputation was sullied by the recent scandal.sullied = damaged
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The spilled ink sullied his crisp white shirt.sullied = stained
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The athlete’s reputation was sullied by cheating accusations.sullied = damaged
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...looking up, she would detect the eyes of a young maiden glancing at the scarlet letter, shyly and aside, and quickly averted, with a faint, chill crimson in her cheeks as if her purity were somewhat sullied by that momentary glance. (source)sullied = dirtied
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I crept into your house while you were away and sullied your wife.† (source)sullied = spoiled or cast doubt upon a reputation
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I'd never known love so pure, and I was afraid that it would become sullied by my mother.† (source)
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Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama. (source)unsullied = clean and undamagedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsullied means not and reverses the meaning of sullied. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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All Louvre night wardens are in the Sully Wing being questioned.† (source)Sully = spoil or cast doubt upon a reputation
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A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.† (source)sullied = spoiled or cast doubt upon a reputation
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Worse, he is sullying the only thing her family owns: its good name.† (source)sullying = spoiling or casting doubt upon a reputation
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Marry, sir, here's my drift; And I believe it is a fetch of warrant: You laying these slight sullies on my son As 'twere a thing a little soil'd i' the working, Mark you, Your party in converse, him you would sound, Having ever seen in the prenominate crimes The youth you breathe of guilty, be assur'd He closes with you in this consequence; 'Good sir,' or so; or 'friend,' or 'gentleman'—According to the phrase or the addition Of man and country.† (source)sullies = spoils or casts doubt upon a reputation
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Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their lives.† (source)unsullied = unspoiled and undamaged
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Well, Bud, I don't mean to sully your reputation, but you just ran away from that man all the way across the state, I think I'd better hand-deliver you.† (source)sully = spoil or cast doubt upon a reputation
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Long after the last tinge of pink was gone, I kept going— rinsing and re-washing the hand towels I'd sullied, which still had a suspicious flush—and then, so tired I was reeling, got in the shower with water so hot I could barely stand it and scrubbed myself down all over again, head to toe, grinding the bar of soap in my hair and weeping at the suds that ran into my eyes.† (source)sullied = spoiled or cast doubt upon a reputation
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Letters to the newspaper condemned the jury for its callousness and for sullying the name of justice in Savannah.† (source)sullying = spoiling or casting doubt upon a reputation
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Like, I can't find the deep down part of me that's pure or unsullied or whatever, the part of me where my soul is supposed to be.† (source)unsullied = unspoiled and undamaged
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