Dictionary Entry
sully
sully is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
To become soiled or tarnished.
- 3noun
Soil; tarnish; stain.
- 4noun
French statesman (1560-1641)
- 5noun
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
- 6verb
charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone "The article in the paper sullied my reputation"
"The journalists have defamed me!"
- 7verb
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"
- 8verb
place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"sully someone's reputation"
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