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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abuse, attaint, bedaub, befoul, benasty, besmear, besmirch, besmutch, besoil, bespatter, betray, black, blacken, blemish, blot, blow upon, brand, call names, censure, contaminate, corrupt, daub, debauch, deceive, defame, defile, deflower, demoralize, denigrate, despoil, destroy, dirty, disapprove, discolor, disgrace, disparage, engage in personalities, expose, expose to infamy, force, foul, gibbet, hang in effigy, heap dirt upon, infect, lead astray, mar, mess, mess up, mislead, muckrake, nasty, pillory, pollute, rape, ravage, ravish, reprimand, revile, ruin, seduce, shame, slubber, slur, smear, smirch, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spoil, spot, stain, stigmatize, taint, tar, tarnish, throw mud at, vilify, violate, vitiate, wreck

Dictionary Results for sully:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Sully
    n 1: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and
         historical scenes (1783-1872) [syn: Sully, Thomas
         Sully]
    2: French statesman (1560-1641) [syn: Sully, Duc de Sully,
       Maxmilien de Bethune]
    v 1: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's
         reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint,
         cloud]
    2: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used
       metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long
       exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the
       affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain,
       maculate, sully, defile]
    3: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name
       and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"
       "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn:
       defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate,
       calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sully \Sul"ly\, v. i.
   To become soiled or tarnished.
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         Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.
                                                  --Bacon.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Sully \Sul"ly\, n.; pl. Sullies.
   Soil; tarnish; stain.
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         A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little
         spots and sullies in his reputation.     --Spectator.
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4. 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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5. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)

Sully -- U.S. County in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    1556
   Housing Units (2000): 844
   Land area (2000):     1006.899280 sq. miles (2607.857052 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    63.460182 sq. miles (164.361110 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1070.359462 sq. miles (2772.218162 sq. km)
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             44.714843 N, 100.090532 W
   Headwords:
    Sully
    Sully, SD
    Sully County
    Sully County, SD

6. U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

Sully, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
   Population (2000):    904
   Housing Units (2000): 360
   Land area (2000):     0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            76035
   Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
   Location:             41.578638 N, 92.845441 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     50251
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Sully, IA
    Sully

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