sully : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sully	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for sully
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Sully n United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872) Synonym(s): Sully, Thomas Sully French statesman (1560-1641) Synonym(s): Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune v place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" Synonym(s): defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the affair with a married man" Synonym(s): tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, 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" Synonym(s): defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sully \Sul"ly\, v. i. To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sully \Sul"ly\, n.; pl. {Sullies}. Soil; tarnish; stain. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. --Spectator.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sully \Sul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sullied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sullying}.] [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, s[81]hlen to wallow, Sw. s[94]la to bemire, Dan. s[94]le, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.] To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation. Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke. --Roscommon. No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity. --Atterbury.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Sully, IA (city, FIPS 76035) Location: 41.57864 N, 92.84646 W Population (1990): 841 (333 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50251