sullied 的 3 个定义
sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.
- to soil, stain, or tarnish.
- to mar the purity or luster of; defile: to sully a reputation.
sul·lied, sul·ly·ing.
- to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished.
plural sul·lies.
- Obsolete. a stain; soil.
sullied 近义词
soil, stain
更多sullied例句
- 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.