Sullies vs Sallies - What's the difference?
sullies | sallies |
(sully)
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between sullies and sallies
is that sullies is (sully) while sallies is (sally).As a noun sallies is
.sullies
English
Verb
(head)sully
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.