释义 |
sullysul‧ly /ˈsʌli/ verb (past tense and past participle sullied, present participle sullying) [transitive] formal or literary sullyOrigin: 1500-1600 Probably from Old French soiller; ➔ SOIL2 VERB TABLEsully |
Present | I, you, we, they | sully | | he, she, it | sullies | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | sullied | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have sullied | | he, she, it | has sullied | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had sullied | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will sully | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have sullied |
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Present | I | am sullying | | he, she, it | is sullying | | you, we, they | are sullying | Past | I, he, she, it | was sullying | | you, we, they | were sullying | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been sullying | | he, she, it | has been sullying | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been sullying | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be sullying | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been sullying |
- And I must take care not to sully it, is that it?
- And when his human dignity was gone, his innocence sullied, he felt something sharp plunge into his chest.
- Instead, the general manager has sullied the whole outfit.
- Is it too pure to be sullied by the messiness of domestic life?
- Oil spills have sullied thousands of acres.
- They stood for progress, a notion already being sullied by contempt for the military-industrial complex.
to spoil or reduce the value of something that was perfect: a scandal that sullied his reputation |