Word Meanings - SULLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: SULLY

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. (more info) sühlen to wallow, Sw. söla to bemire, Dan. söle, Goth. bisaulijan to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SULLY)

• Blot Obscure
• tarnish
• spoil
• sully
• spot
• discolor
• pollute
• obliterate
• erase
• blur
• stain
• blotch
• smear
• smutch
• Contaminate
• Defile
• taint
• corrupt
• befoul
• Injure
• Damage
• wound
• hurt
• wrong
• impair
• maltreat
• cripple
• mar
• harm
• Stain Dye
• color
• tinge
• slur
• shame
• paint
• blot
• soil
• disgrace
• dishonor
• blemish
• stigmatize
• Taint
• Imbue
• impregnate
• infect
• defile
• contaminate
• vitiate
• poison

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SULLY)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Daub
• caricature
• misportray
• misrepresent
• misdelineate
• misdepict
• Purify
• wash
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to SULLY)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• BLOTCH
  A large pustule, or a coarse eruption. Foul scurf and blotches him defile. Thomson. (more info) black, as bleach is akin to bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a 1. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• SMEAR DAB
  The sand fluke .
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• SULLY
  Soil; tarnish; stain. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator.
• SMEARED
  Having the color mark ings ill defined, as if rubbed; as, the smeared dagger moth .
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• BESMEAR
  To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil. Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.
• REPAINT
  To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.