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Unsully vs Unsilly - What's the difference?

unsully | unsilly |

As a verb unsully

is to make clean (something formerly sullied).

As an adjective unsilly is

not silly.

unsully

English

Verb

  • To make clean (something formerly sullied).
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 26, author=Ginia Bellafante, title=The Medium, the Message, the Drama of TV’s Q & A, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The footage of the interviews available at the Museum of Television and Radio includes the commercials, many of which have the strange subliminal effect of reminding us that we are watching a man try to unsully himself. }}

    unsilly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not silly.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=May 10, author=Rob Walker, title=Big Cheese, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=“Cheetos is about being playful, it’s about being silly,” Lambeth replies in a thoroughly unsilly tone. }}