Sully
    n 1: United States painter (born in England) of portraits and
         historical scenes (1783-1872) [syn: Sully, Thomas
         Sully]
    2: French statesman (1560-1641) [syn: Sully, Duc de Sully,
       Maxmilien de Bethune]
    v 1: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's
         reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint,
         cloud]
    2: make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used
       metaphorically; "The silver was tarnished by the long
       exposure to the air"; "Her reputation was sullied after the
       affair with a married man" [syn: tarnish, stain,
       maculate, sully, defile]
    3: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name
       and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!"
       "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn:
       defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate,
       calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]

Sully \Sul"ly\, v. i.
   To become soiled or tarnished.
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         Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.
                                                  --Bacon.
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Sully \Sul"ly\, n.; pl. Sullies.
   Soil; tarnish; stain.
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         A noble and triumphant merit breaks through little
         spots and sullies in his reputation.     --Spectator.
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Sully \Sul"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sullying.] [OE. sulien, AS. sylian, fr. sol mire; akin to
   G. suhle mire, sich, s["u]hlen to wallow, Sw. s["o]la to
   bemire, Dan. s["o]le, Goth. bisaulijan to defile.]
   To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken;
   -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to
   sully a person's reputation.
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         Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
                                                  --Roscommon.
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         No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.
                                                  --Atterbury.
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Sully -- U.S. County in South Dakota
   Population (2000):    1556
   Housing Units (2000): 844
   Land area (2000):     1006.899280 sq. miles (2607.857052 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    63.460182 sq. miles (164.361110 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    1070.359462 sq. miles (2772.218162 sq. km)
   Located within:       South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
   Location:             44.714843 N, 100.090532 W
   Headwords:
    Sully
    Sully, SD
    Sully County
    Sully County, SD

Sully, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
   Population (2000):    904
   Housing Units (2000): 360
   Land area (2000):     0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.520573 sq. miles (1.348277 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            76035
   Located within:       Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
   Location:             41.578638 N, 92.845441 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     50251
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Sully, IA
    Sully