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Sully   /sˈəli/   Listen
Sully

verb
(past & past part. sullied; pres. part. sullying)
1.
Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.  Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, taint.
2.
Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.  Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, tarnish.  "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man"
3.
Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.  Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch.  "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
noun
(pl. sullies)
1.
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872).  Synonym: Thomas Sully.
2.
French statesman (1560-1641).  Synonyms: Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune.



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"Sully" Quotes from Famous Books



... on alchymy are Geber, the Arab, Friar Bacon, Sully, John and Isaac Hallendus, Basil Valentine, Paracelsus, Van ...
— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... his reproach, by the Protestants, that he renounced his religion for worldly elevation. Nor is it easy to exculpate him on the highest principles of moral integrity. But there were many palliations for his conduct, which it is not now easy to appreciate. It is well known that the illustrious Sully, his prime minister, and, through life, a zealous Protestant, approved of his course. It was certainly clear that, without becoming a Catholic, he never could peaceably enjoy his crown, and France would be rent, for another generation, by those civil wars which none lamented more than Henry ...
— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord

... Saint! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly; I will not enter there, To sully your pure ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray

... brought on by his enemy, said:—"It is true that yesterday, when reciting Compline, I perceived that the devil was approaching, and I prepared to resist him. He is full of malice and artfulness; as he could not sully a soul which God protects by His grace, he endeavored to injure the body, and to prevent the necessary aid being afforded to it; desiring to induce it to commit some fault, at least of impatience, and prevent its having recourse to prayer." The holy man was delivered from ...
— The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi • Father Candide Chalippe

... Simonne Evrard loved him, for a more impassioned obituary speech was, mayhap, never spoken than the one which she delivered before the National Assembly in honour of that sinister demagogue, whose writings and activities will for ever sully some of the really fine ...
— The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel • Baroness Orczy


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