sully
IPA: sˈʌɫi
noun
- (rare, obsolete) A blemish.
- A surname.
- A placename:
- A coastal village in the Vale of Glamorgan county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST1568).
- A commune in Saône-et-Loire department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
- A commune in Oise department, Hauts-de-France, France.
- A commune in Calvados department, Normandy, France.
- A minor city in Jasper County, Iowa, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
- Ellipsis of Sully County. [One of 66 counties in South Dakota, United States. County seat: Onida.]
verb
- (transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
- (transitive) To corrupt or damage.
- (intransitive, ergative) To become soiled or tarnished.
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Examples of "sully" in Sentences
- When did you sully the garden
- Mother warned her boy not to sully.
- We were taught not to sully forest.
- The teacher told the children not to sully a thing.
- HEMMER: How do they say "sully" in Russian, by the way?
- Then something happened at the very end to kind of sully it.
- Censoring Prof. Hewitt will further sully the reputation of the Wikipedia.
- The heroic actions of pilot chesley "sully" sullenberger in guiding U.S. Airways flight
- Chesley "sully" Sullenberger to ditch the plane in the Hudson River in a miracle landing.
- There was no plot to 'sully' the reputation of Joe Wilson (not that identifying his wife as a CIA employee would accomplish that anyway).
- Roark said the witnesses testifying against Carter, including Tousley and other former sheriff's office brass, were just trying to "sully" Carter's reputation.
- President Nicholas Sarkozy was roundly criticized for losing his cool at the recent annual Agriculture Fair by insulting a constituent who refused to shake his hand (while saying it would "sully" him to be touched by the president.)
- July 5th, 2006 at 4: 53 pm seabiscuit says: sully is another one: unless he is getting paid the billion dollars that the ceo of exxon got to deny climate crisis is happening, what’s in it for him? why do it? why lie about the fate of the earth?
- Most folks know that lots of American stars who would never "sully" their images over here by doing cheap car and makeup ads have no problem doing so overseas obviously, Catherine Zeta-Jones doesn't consider her ad career to be anything to be ashamed of.
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