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Bedaub vs Sully - What's the difference?

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Bedaub is a related term of sully.


In lang=en terms the difference between bedaub and sully

is that bedaub is to ornament garishly; to overdecorate while sully is to become soiled or tarnished.

As verbs the difference between bedaub and sully

is that bedaub is to smear upon; to soil while sully is to soil or stain; to dirty.

bedaub

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To smear upon; to soil.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2009 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Noeleen McIlvenna , quotee=journal, 1711 , title=A Very Mutinous People , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press , isbn=9780807832868 , page=18 , passage=In this 6 mile we Crosst several miring branches in which we were all terribly bedaubed … Having almost spent the day in this toilsome tho short Journey. }}
  • To ornament garishly; to overdecorate.

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    sully

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    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • to soil or stain; to dirty
    • He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
  • * Roscommon
    • statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
  • to damage or corrupt
    • He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
  • * Atterbury
    • no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
  • To become soiled or tarnished.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.