Sully, Duc de Sully, Maxmilien de Bethune
(noun) French statesman (1560-1641)
Sully, Thomas Sully
(noun) United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch
(verb) 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”
tarnish, stain, maculate, sully, defile
(verb) 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”
defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; “sully someone’s reputation”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sully (third-person singular simple present sullies, present participle sullying, simple past and past participle sullied)
(transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
Synonym: sowl (obsolete)
(transitive) To corrupt or damage.
(intransitive ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
• (to corrupt or damage): besmirch, debase, stain, tarnish
sully (plural sullies)
(rare, obsolete) A blemish.
Sully (countable and uncountable, plural Sullys)
A surname.
Diminutive of Sullivan
A coastal village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (OS grid ref ST1568).
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sully is the 30767th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 757 individuals. Sully is most common among White (54.56%), Black/African American (25.36%), and null (10.17%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Sul"ly, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied; p. pr. & vb. n. Sullying.] Etym: [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to G. suhle mire, sich, sühlen to wallow, Sw. söla to bemire, Dan. söle, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.]
Definition: 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.
Sul"ly, v. i.
Definition: To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.
Sul"ly, n.; pl. Sullies (.
Definition: Soil; tarnish; stain. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 February 2025
(adjective) marked by strong resentment or cynicism; “an acrimonious dispute”; “bitter about the divorce”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
