English-Thai Dictionary

sully

VI มีมลทิน  ด่างพร้อย  มัวหมอง  เสียชื่อเสียง  me-mon-tin

 

sully

VT ทำให้ มีมลทิน  ทำให้ มัวหมอง  ทำให้ เสียชื่อเสียง  blemish defile disgrace dishonor tam-hai-me-mon-tin

 

sully

VT ทำให้ สกปรก  ทำให้ เปรอะเปื้อน  ทำให้ เลอะเทอะ  ทำให้ เปื้อน  soil stain tarnish tam-hai-sok-ka-pok

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SULLY

v.t. 1. To soil; to dirt; to spot; to tarnish.
And statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
2. To tarnish; to darken.
Let there be no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
3. To stain; to tarnish; as the purity of reputation; as virtues sullied by slanders; character sullied by infamous vices.

 

SULLY

v.i.To be soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.

 

SULLY

n.Soil, tarnish; spot. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies on his reputation.

 

SULLYING

ppr. Soiling; tarnishing; staining.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SULLY

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. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

SULLY

SULLY Sul "ly, v. i.

 

Defn: To become soiled or tarnished. Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding. Bacon.

 

SULLY

Sul "ly, n.; pl. Sullies (.

 

Defn: Soil; tarnish; stain. A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little spots and sullies in his reputation. Spectator.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sully

sul ly |ˈsəlē ˈsəli | ▶verb ( sullies, sullying, sullied ) [ with obj. ] literary or ironic damage the purity or integrity of; defile: they were outraged that anyone should sully their good name. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps from French souiller ‘to soil. ’

 

Sully, Thomas

Sul ly, Thomas |ˈsəlē ˈsəli | (1783 –1872 ), US artist; born in England. Chiefly a portrait painter, he produced pictures of Queen Victoria, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. His historical paintings include The Passage of the Delaware (1819 ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

sully

sully |ˈsʌli | ▶verb ( sullies, sullying, sullied ) [ with obj. ] literary damage the purity or integrity of: they were outraged that anyone should sully their good name. • make dirty: she wondered if she dared sully the gleaming sink. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: perhaps from French souiller ‘to soil ’.

 

Sully, Thomas

Sul ly, Thomas |ˈsəlē ˈsəli | (1783 –1872 ), US artist; born in England. Chiefly a portrait painter, he produced pictures of Queen Victoria, the Marquis de Lafayette, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe. His historical paintings include The Passage of the Delaware (1819 ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sully

sully verb he never sullied his lips with foul language: taint, defile, soil, tarnish, stain, blemish, pollute, spoil, mar; literary besmirch, befoul.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sully

sully verb he never sullied his lips with swear words: taint, defile, soil, tarnish, stain, blemish, besmirch, befoul, contaminate, pollute, spoil, mar, spot, make impure, disgrace, dishonour, injure, damage. ANTONYMS purify.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sully

sul ly /sʌ́li /動詞 -lies ; -lied ; ～ing 他動詞 ｟かたく 文 ｠1 〈純粋 [完全 ]なもの 名声 〉の価値を減じる, 〈イメージ 〉を損ねる ▸ His reputation has been sullied by the scandal .そのスキャンダルのせいで彼は評判を落とした 2 …を汚す, 汚くする ▸ The shore was sullied by dead fish .その海岸は死んだ魚で汚くなっていた