Antonyms for sullied

Grammar : Verb

Spell : suhl-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsʌl i

Definition of sullied

Origin : 1570s (implied in sulliedness), probably from Middle French souiller, from Old French souillier "make dirty" (see soil (v.)). Related: Sullied; sullying.

verb soil, stain

Example sentences :

No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Was it well that a deity should be sullied by a mortal's wound?
Extract from : « The Aeneid of Virgil » by Virgil

Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied, debased.
Extract from : « The Child of Pleasure » by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The child has been concealed, that she might not be sullied by the looks of such creatures as you.
Extract from : « The Regent's Daughter » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)

Never let your reputation in this respect be sullied by so much as a breath.
Extract from : « The Congo Rovers » by Harry Collingwood

She would not allow her mind to be sullied by such a suspicion.
Extract from : « The Beth Book » by Sarah Grand

But never yet had “baffled” sullied her wells of pure undefiled English.
Extract from : « Miss Mapp » by Edward Frederic Benson

The glory of the victory was sullied by the barbarity of the soldiers.
Extract from : « The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. » by Tobias Smollett

But his military fame was sullied by ingratitude and tyranny.
Extract from : « The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire » by Edward Gibbon

The lips that had sullied my dear wife's should have no sort of speech with mine.
Extract from : « Dariel » by R. D. Blackmore

Synonyms for sullied

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