Sample Sentences for
sully
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sully as in:  sully her reputation

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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
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    "The king means to fight in the melee today," Ser Barristan said as they were passing Ser Meryn's shield, its paint sullied by a deep gash where Loras Tyrell's lance had scarred the wood as he drove him from his saddle.  (source)
    sullied = damaged
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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—  (source)
    sullied = dirtied
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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
    standard 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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    It may be James McDermott, come here to sully Grace's reputation.†  (source)
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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 damaged
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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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    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)
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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 undamaged
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    Maybe I would waste my time on skills I didn't care about—like sword fighting or badminton—but I would not sully the memory of my once-perfect music and archery.†  (source)
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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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    Maraa Isabel is enraged; they are sullying one of the few things she has — her honor.  (source)
    sullying = staining or casting doubt upon
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    Harry had been expecting it, knew his body would not be allowed to remain unsullied upon the forest floor; it must be subjected to humiliation to prove Voldemort's victory.  (source)
    unsullied = undamaged and unstained
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All Louvre night wardens are in the Sully Wing being questioned.  (source)
Sully = a name
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