Glower vs Sully - What's the difference?
glower | sully |
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
In lang=en terms the difference between glower and sully
is that glower is to look or stare with anger while sully is to become soiled or tarnished.As verbs the difference between glower and sully
is that glower is to look or stare with anger while sully is to soil or stain; to dirty.As a noun glower
is an angry stare or glare.glower
English
Alternative forms
* glourSee also
* frown * scowl * glare English intransitive verbssully
English
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.