Sullies vs Sullied - What's the difference?
sullies | sullied |
(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 sullied
is that sullies is (sully) while sullied is (sully).As an adjective sullied is
defiled or tainted, soiled or stained.sullies
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Verb
(head)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.
