2. Verb. (past of sully) ¹
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Definition of Sullied
1. sully [v] - See also: sully
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sullied
Literary usage of Sullied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... or rather murders, which sullied the declining age of Constantine, will suggest
to our most candid thought?, the idea of a prince who could sacrifice ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... remonstrated against it during tho passage of titc measure through Parliament.
Tt was feared that tho purity of the bench might bo sullied by being ..."
3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1826)
"How will you suffer your glory to be thus sullied in the face of the whole world;
and have it said that a nation who first dedicated a temple in this city ..."
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