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Sullied Synonyms

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Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. tarnished
  2. tainted
  3. dirtied
  4. blotted
  5. soiled
  6. defiled
  7. smeared
  8. clouded
  9. stained
  10. smutted
  11. corrupted
  12. spattered
  13. smudged
  14. polluted
  15. spotted
  16. marred
  17. denigrated
  18. disgraced
  19. befouled
  20. blackened
  21. bespattered
  22. debased
  23. besmirched
  24. besmeared
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. shamed
  2. begrimed
  3. befouled
  4. smeared
  5. soiled
  6. calumniated
  7. smudged
  8. denigrated
  9. smutched
  10. denounced
  11. dirtied
  12. aspersed
  13. besmirched
  14. blacked
  15. smirched
  16. defiled
  17. slandered
  18. blackened
  19. debased
  20. defamed

Sullied Sentence Examples

  • Ashes and dirt sullied his uniform and made him sneeze.

  • The broken and demoralized army, its ranks thinned by fever and sickness, at last began its hopeless retreat, attempting to reach Catania by a circuitous route; but, harassed by the numerous Syracusan cavalry and darters, after a few days of dreadful suffering, it was forced to lay down its arms. The Syracusans sullied the glory of their triumph by putting Nicias and Demosthenes to death, and huddling their prisoners into their stonequarries - a living death, dragged out, for the allies from Greece proper to the space of seventy days, for the Athenians themselves and the Greeks of Sicily and Italy for six months longer.

  • The exceedingly annoying (please…make it stop) couple has sullied up the cover of many a tabloid over the past few weeks claiming their wedded bliss.

  • Without having the strict regulations of the DOC to follow, vintners began a mass production of Chianti to be exported around the world, which sullied the good reputation it had built over centuries.

  • His son Louis of Anjou, who had been left as hostage, escaped from Calais in the summer of 1363, and John, far in arrears in the payments of the ransom, surrendered himself again "to maintain his royal honour which his son had sullied."

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Sullied Is Also Mentioned In

  • unsully
  • maculate
  • unsullied
  • unpristine
  • sully
  • sulliable
  • tarnish
  • beblubber
  • solwy
  • marred

Words near Sullied in the Thesaurus

  • sulks
  • sulky
  • sulla
  • sullen
  • sullenly
  • sullenness
  • sullied
  • sullies
  • sullivan
  • sully
  • sullying
  • sulpha
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