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单词 sully
释义
sully
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈsʌl.i/us
/ˈsʌl.i/
tospoilsomething that ispureor someone'sperfectreputation:
玷污；败坏
Hisreputation, he said, had beenunfairlysullied by half-truths andinnuendos.他说他的声誉已经被一些半真半假的报道和含沙射影的说法给抹黑了。
to make somethingdirty:
弄脏
Nospeckofdirthadeversullied hishands.他的双手总是干干净净的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Damaging reputation
  • anti-defamation
  • aspersion
  • besmirch
  • black mark
  • blacken
  • blot
  • demonize
  • dog
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  • give a dog a bad nameidiom
  • hurl/throw/sling mud atsomeoneidiom
  • poison
  • self-immolation
  • show someone in a bad lightidiom
  • slander
  • slanderer
  • slanderous
  • smear
  • stab
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Making things dirty & untidy
(Definition ofsullyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsully

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The whole outlook from these houses is sullied by soot besmirched in a soot-laden atmosphere.
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They have sullied compassion and scoffed at what they call the "dependency culture".
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He rather spoiled the beginning of the debate, sullying it with a bit of party politics.
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To have that sport, which can achieve so much for people, sullied by hooligans gives me intense pain.
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A substantial lack of competition has sullied the commercial element in radio and television.
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We are also sullied with the common external tariff.
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I do not wish their reputation to be sullied because of the way in which they prosecute and have to operate the law.
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She felt that it was the wrong reason for marrying; that she had sullied the institution of marriage by marrying for that reason.
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One of the ways in which it will be sullied is if the industry does not pay full compensation to the innocent victims of this disaster.
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I hope that it will lead to self-regulation in order to minimise if not completely destroy those who have sullied the good name of the press.
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Would it not be lamentable if these great memories were to be sullied by other memories of which, on reflection, conscience would have cause to be ashamed?
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His hair were covered with frost, his body is sullied with blood and his hands were wet.
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They also hoped the uplifting human interest story would deflect attention from a series of corruption scandals that had sullied the department's reputation.
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Here was he, a riverbed beggar, an outcast, barely human, daring to think of sullying the purity of parliament with his presence.
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She is fined 1 in court, but she is mainly worried about the local newspaper carrying the story and sullying her reputation.
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