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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, defiled, dirtied, drabbled, draggled, fouled, impure, indecent, maculate, smirched, smudged, soiled, spotted, stained, tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous
Dictionary Results for sullied:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sully \Sul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sullying.] [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to
   G. suhle mire, sich, s["u]hlen to wallow, Sw. s["o]la to
   bemire, Dan. s["o]le, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.]
   To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken;
   -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to
   sully a person's reputation.
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         Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
                                                  --Roscommon.
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         No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
                                                  --Atterbury.
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