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Meanings of sullied in English
Synonyms
Examples for "damaged"
Examples for "damaged"
1
Recent cases had damaged New Zealand's reputation with foreign students, he said.
2
It has damaged consumer confidence in scientists, farming and the food industry.
3
Power companies are trying to stop damaged cables from triggering new fires.
4
Independence Day gunfire from Palestinian areas left eight homes damaged in Giloh.
5
Mr Marsh said about 50 power poles were damaged in the storm.
1
The flag was also spotted at a bar in Sea Point recently.
2
And some others said they didn't think the changes spotted were serious.
3
Senior officials in Dublin spotted the issue directly after the Brexit vote.
4
Four Mantimahle male lions were recently spotted 'patrolling' the Kruger National Park.
5
The operation appears to have been spotted by rival organisations in Europe.
1
The only stained windows in the building are in the west transept.
2
It took the Bayleys years of work to restore the smoke-stained remains.
3
Three armed figures in battle-stained attire picked their way among the bodies.
4
I've got symbols of five different religions in stained glass, including Shinto.
5
Results: All bleaching products have the same efficacy to whiten stained enamel.
1
She said no improper police conduct tainted the identification in Perry's case.
2
Opponents say the protests are tainted because they involved major labor organizations.
3
Why do top US colleges take money tainted by the opioid crisis?
4
The poisoning hazards include deteriorating lead paint, tainted soil and contaminated water.
5
That blinkered approach tainted all the evidence and carried into the courtroom.
1
But greater scrutiny could help improve the tarnished reputation of the sector.
2
The win, however, was tarnished by a late red card for Fernandinho.
3
His disputed election victory last August was tarnished by widespread vote rigging.
4
He wore chain mail that was of good quality, if rather tarnished.
5
When it's done right it is beautiful but last night tarnished it.
1
In recent years, Italian football has had its winning image repeatedly besmirched.
2
Every taste I ever had in life seems to have become besmirched.
3
For as yet machinery and reeking factories had not besmirched the country-side.
4
There was not a day that had not been wasted, botched, besmirched.
5
Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?
1
The blood around the flyblown wound was congealed but not completely dry.
2
The ground floor consisted of a little Italian restaurant, of the flyblown sort.
3
On the walls were faded oleographs of generals and archbishops, flyblown and stained.
4
Valle Crusis has a blacksmith shop and a dirty, flyblown store.
5
A fellow gets flyblown if he stays in the field, so I beat it.
Usage of sullied in English
1
The vision of a day; snow, sullied and dispelled in a night.
2
The irony was that far from improving our reputation, we sullied it.
3
The good name of Canadian-South Korean animated co-productions has been sullied forever.
4
Their love cannot be sullied by baubles like marriage or long-term cohabitation.
5
Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied, debased.
6
If she thinks herself ill-formed, her reputation will be sullied by scandal.
7
Was not his crime written on his sullied brow in indelible soars?
8
Wait till this bright edge be sullied with my sweet love's blood.
9
I wondered, briefly, how my own sullied face looked in the light.
10
As if a political crime ever sullied the honour of any one!
11
Doping allegations have sullied athletics of late, with several athletes failing drugs tests.
12
The glory of the victory was sullied by the barbarity of the soldiers.
13
The abuse claims against Savile have also sullied the reputation of the BBC.
14
One brief uncivil word in brilliant green sullied the purity of its canvas.
15
Johnny Wattersonon the moments when politics and money sullied the sport.
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The scandal has disrupted Volkswagen's global business and sullied its reputation.
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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