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Verb: sully súlee- Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation" - defile, corrupt, taint, cloud - Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
"Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" - tarnish, stain, maculate, defile - 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" - defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, besmirch Noun: Sully súlee- French statesman (1560-1641)
- Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune - United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
- Thomas Sully
Derived forms: sullied, sullies, sullying Type of: accuse, blob, blot, charge, deflower, fleck, impair, mar, national leader, painter, solon, spoil, spot, statesman, vitiate Encyclopedia: Sully, Iowa Sully, Maurice de Sully, Maximilien de Bethune, Duc de Sully, IA Sully Sully, Calvados Sully, Glamorgan Sully, Saône-et-Loire Sully, Vale of Glamorgan Sully, Wales Sully, Saone-et-Loire Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, Oise Sully, Quebec |