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sullied

/suhl-ee/US // ˈsʌl i //UK // (ˈsʌlɪ) //

污秽的,污秽不堪的,污浊的,污秽不堪

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v.有主动词 verb
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    sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.

    • : to soil, stain, or tarnish.
    • : to mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation.
v.无主动词 verb
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    sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.

    • : to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished.
n.名词 noun
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    plural sul·lies.

    • : Obsolete. a stain; soil.

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Examples

  • On board is Sully, who sacrificed her marriage and left her daughter behind in order to become one of the first humans to travel so far in our Solar System.

  • Straight couples will see that their own marriages were somehow not sullied after all.

  • Similarly, clandestine foreign operations have sullied the civilian courts.

  • This modern autocrat suckles from your own breast and buries you beneath a mountain of sullied nappies.

  • Suppose McCain had been voted out of office in 1992 after the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal sullied his reputation.

  • This was very exceptional in railway history, for British and Irish railways possess a record that has rarely been sullied.

  • “Awful,” “horrid,” and “lovely” are good words; but they have been sullied by common use.

  • The same treachery which sullied the reminiscences of Ghent, characterised the procedure of the minister towards England in 1846.

  • Pomp grinned, and broke off some thick leaves to carefully clean the sullied end, chuckling merrily the while.

  • Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied, debased.