SULLY

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

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Etymology

Verb

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.

Coordinate terms

• (to corrupt or damage): besmirch, debase, stain, tarnish

Noun

sully (plural sullies)

(rare, obsolete) A blemish.

Proper noun

Sully (countable and uncountable, plural Sullys)

A surname.

Diminutive of Sullivan

A coastal village in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (OS grid ref ST1568).

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sully is the 30767^th 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

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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

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