Sentence examples for be sullied from inspiring English sources
verb
To soil or stain; to dirty
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
Their reputations could be sullied by folks who misconstrue your situation.
Better, sometimes, for architecture to remain unbuilt than be sullied by realisation.
I don't want Scotland, the most beautiful country ever to be sullied by these awful windmills".
Ms. Rice knows well how quickly villa-rental fantasies can be sullied by real life.
Heaven forbid that their young minds should be sullied by such notions as crime, death or birthdays.
He avoided railroad towns, where the pure currents of folk tradition might be sullied, and ignored black music almost completely.
Yes, actual humans were professing to feel badly that the poor, disrespected Masters would be sullied by Tiger Woods's return.
Let this cooperation not be sullied sanctimonious finger-pointing and sly jibes at their poorer, once-Asian "cousins".
Who would have thought the innocent name of Earl Grey could be sullied so thoroughly through reckless association with erotica?
Family names may be sullied in Kazakhstan if it should emerge that democratic dissent exists within a family.
"I have children and I don't want to be sullied by rumours that I am the traitor".
