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sully

English

  1. 🔊 French statesman (1560-1641)
  2. 🔊 United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
  3. 🔊 place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
    “sully someone's reputation”
  4. 🔊 make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
    “The silver was tarnished by the long exposure to the air”
  5. 🔊 charge falsely or with malicious intent
    “The journalists have defamed me!”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 ensuciar to sully, to smear, to besmirch, to blacken, to tarnish (a person's name, reputation or memory)
  2. 🔊 manchar to sully, to tarnish, to taint, to soil, to besmirch, to smear (one's name, reputation, honour, spirit, etc.)

Similar words

duc de sully maxmilien de bethune thomas sully defame slander smirch asperse denigrate calumniate smear besmirch tarnish stain maculate defile defile corrupt taint cloud abuse attaint bedaub befoul benasty