Sentence examples for to sully from inspiring English sources
verb
To soil or stain; to dirty
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
There was nothing, no flaw, to sully the picture.
He stamps his feet, careful not to sully the charts.
Plus, I don't want to sully myself that way, or compromise my innate purity.
Nothing has done more to sully America's image in the modern world.
The leaders in Beijing insist that politics must not be allowed to sully the Olympics.
Napoleon's fall set loose a torrent of hostile books designed to sully his reputation.
The judge publicly admonished Felder for his attempts to sully Minnelli's reputation.
It would take a braver critic than I to sully his image.
There's no need, after all, to sully the nostalgia and goodwill by trying something daft.
Fortunately for MGM, Bond's cosmopolitan image is hard to sully and is replete with products.
He later thanked those who had stood by him during the attempts to "sully" his reputation.
