Stigmatise vs Sully - What's the difference?
stigmatise | sully | Related terms |
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between stigmatise and sully
is that stigmatise is standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling|stigmatize|lang=en while sully is to soil or stain; to dirty.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.
