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Cullied vs Sullied - What's the difference?

cullied | sullied |

As verbs the difference between cullied and sullied

is that cullied is (cully) while sullied is (sully).

As an adjective sullied is

defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.

cullied

English

Verb

(head)
  • (cully)

  • cully

    English

    Noun

    (cullies)
  • A person who is easily tricked or imposed on; a dupe, a gullible person.
  • * Addison
  • I have learned that I am not the first cully whom she has passed upon for a countess.
  • *2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 158:
  • *:One [attitude] was a fascination with street-walkers and and courtesans as self-confident entrepreneurs, able to outwit their simple cullies .
  • (slang) A companion.
  • Verb

  • To trick, to impose on, to dupe.
  • sullied

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.
  • Antonyms

    * unsullied

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sully)