Defame vs Sully - What's the difference?
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To harm or diminish the reputation of.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
* Dryden
To publish a libel about.
(archaic) To charge; to accuse.
* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
Defame is a related term of sully.
As verbs the difference between defame and sully
is that defame is to harm or diminish the reputation of while sully is to soil or stain; to dirty.defame
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Verb
(defam)- to defame somebody
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
Synonyms
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* *sully
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
- statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
- He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
- no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
- Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.