I wouldn't want to sully your good name.
Source: tatoeba (2033743)
Sully
//ˈsʌli//
Synonyms for "sully" (194 found)
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Closest matches (39)
Strong matches (58)
Related words (97)
Verb(48 words)
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6 entriesderived
6 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- замърсявам verb (to soil or stain)
- опетнявам verb (to corrupt or damage)
- цапам verb (to soil or stain)
- цапам се verb (to become soiled or tarnished)
Czech
4 entries- poskvrnit verb (to corrupt or damage)
- potřísnit verb (to soil or stain)
- pošpinit verb (to corrupt or damage)
- umazat verb (to soil or stain)
Dutch
4 entries- bevuilen verb (to soil or stain)
- bevuilen verb (to corrupt or damage)
- bezoedelen verb (to soil or stain)
- bezoedelen verb (to corrupt or damage)
Finnish
3 entries- liata verb (to soil or stain)
- liata verb (to corrupt or damage)
- tahrata verb (to soil or stain)
French
3 entries- salir verb (to soil or stain)
- souiller verb (to soil or stain)
- souiller verb (to corrupt or damage)
Galician
3 entries- emporcallar verb (to soil or stain)
- ensuciar verb (to soil or stain)
- luxar verb (to soil or stain)
German
3 entries- besudeln verb (to soil or stain)
- besudeln verb (to corrupt or damage)
- schmutzig machen verb (to soil or stain)
Hungarian
4 entries- bepiszkít verb (to soil or stain)
- beszennyez verb (to soil or stain)
- beszennyez verb (to corrupt or damage)
- összepiszkít verb (to soil or stain)
Irish
1 entries- salaigh verb (to soil or stain)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چامورلامق verb (to corrupt or damage)
Polish
2 entries- skalać verb (to soil or stain)
- skalać verb (to corrupt or damage)
Portuguese
3 entries- macular verb (to corrupt or damage)
- manchar verb (to corrupt or damage)
- sujar verb (to soil or stain)
Romanian
4 entries- murdări verb (to corrupt or damage)
- murdări verb (to become soiled or tarnished)
- mânji verb (to soil or stain)
- păta verb (to corrupt or damage)
Russian
3 entries- мара́ть verb (to soil or stain)
- па́чкать verb (to soil or stain)
- пятнать verb (to corrupt or damage)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ukaljati verb (to soil or stain)
- ukaljati verb (to corrupt or damage)
Spanish
4 entries- embarrar verb (to corrupt or damage)
- enfangar verb (to corrupt or damage)
- ensuciar verb (to soil or stain)
- macular verb (to corrupt or damage)
Swedish
1 entries- söla verb (to soil or stain)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бруднити verb (to soil or stain)
- плямувати verb (to corrupt or damage)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
To preach chastity is to provoke acts against nature. Those who condemn sexuality and sully it by calling it 'impure', are guilty of a sin most grave against the holy spirit of life.
Source: tatoeba (3900453)
It is a region of purity, of white ice, and of blue water, with no human dwelling within a thousand miles to sully the freshness of the breeze which blows across the icefields.
Source: tatoeba (10992433)
After reading something beautiful, write nothing, say nothing; do not be so shameless as to sully that exquisite rapture with your filthy words.
Source: tatoeba (13614688)
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