| 单词 | unsullied |
| 释义 | unsullied (once / 5465 pages) adj Your reputation is unsullied, or unsoiled, because you study hard, you don’t skip school, and you are generally kind to everyone. Your friend’s reputation hasn’t stayed unsullied since he got caught selling answers to tests. To understand the adjective unsullied, you must understand its root, sully, "to soil or tarnish." Something unsullied is spotless: you usually refer to things in the abstract in this way––your military record may be unsullied by disciplinary actions, your report card may be unsullied by grades lower than A. WORD FAMILYsullied: unsullied+/sully: sullied, sullies, sullying USAGE EXAMPLESTo ensure those samples were unsullied, they had asked volunteers to avoid bathing, shampooing or using any personal-care products for three days. Wall Street Journal(Nov 14, 2016) Are you so very unsullied/pure in word and deed? New York Times(Nov 08, 2016) When I was a little sister, girls who were readers had, as a rule, two choices: stories about boys or stories about unsullied girls. The New Yorker(Nov 13, 2016) 1adj (of reputation) free from blemishes his unsullied name Syn stainless, unstained, untainted, untarnished unblemished, unmarred, unmutilated free from physical or moral spots or stains 2adj spotlessly clean and fresh the unsullied snow of mountains Syn clean free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits |
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