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Meanings of sully in English
Synonyms
Examples for "smear"
Examples for "smear"
1
Now Donald Trump and the far right are trying to smear him.
2
The blood of the pauper shall smear the couch of the indolent.
3
It is of course wrong not to smear the blame around evenly.
4
But in the case of his latest smear campaign, the reaction is.
5
All subjects completed TB treatment and were smear negative at treatment completion.
1
It is a slander upon their memory, at least, so I believe.
2
Subsequently, the play and film Amadeus gave mass circulation to the slander.
3
They hear the language of flattery, but not the tongue of slander.
4
Pepin mutters a residue of slander in tones that quiver with malice-
5
Shortly after the interview was released, Danilkin described its contents as slander.
1
For example, it's routine marketing practice for homeopaths to denigrate mainstream medicine.
2
It's a Chinese principle to contribute to, and not denigrate, potential markets.
3
None of that, of course, is to denigrate Eric and his ability.
4
By seeking to ban and re-route loyalist parades and denigrate our culture.
5
This is not to denigrate the former in favour of the latter.
1
Nor is there any attempt here to defame or injure any section.
2
To have your letter intercepted, rival enemies are working to defame you.
3
They accused foreign forces in Afghanistan of orchestrating it to defame the Taliban.
4
We are outcasts from Deity; therefore we defame the place of our exile.
5
He seemed to like to defame men whom the people loved and honored.
1
In fact, she may rise out of her grave to calumniate me.
2
He would not calumniate those, he said, who counselled trust in God.
3
Bless them that curse you and pray for them that calumniate you.
4
You do more, under the pretext of unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself.
5
Who shall praise or honour princes who insult and calumniate each other?
1
It's a weapon that no self-respecting man should smirch his hands with.
2
For many of them it will smirch us forever.... You DO understand?
3
One could never detect a smirch or a grain of dust upon them.
4
A careless word or two shall easily suffice to smirch your fair fame.
5
He had never tried to embarrass him or smirch his name.
1
Why besmirch with murder foul the noble shade of that renowned chief?
2
The whole Russia line was a ruse to besmirch Trump and help Clinton.
3
The letter which would besmirch my name, dishonour and disgrace it for ever!
4
The Long Summer will come again before that one would besmirch his precious honor.
5
After all, why besmirch someone who may yet be innocent?
1
Herbal waters can also be used to asperse or anoint people or places.
2
You have presumed to asperse the good name of the Countess de Soissons.
3
Who would dare to asperse the character of this perfect, lovely, and intellectual schoolmistress?
4
And to think, mother, that they shall asperse his name!
5
As you asperse the area, you may wish to say something to the effect of:
Spanish
thomas sully Usage of sully in English
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China has since sought to sully her reputation and undermine her claims.
2
The judge publicly admonished Felder for his attempts to sully Minnelli's reputation.
3
It was forbidden to sully their royal bloodlines by producing mud children.
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And Force would never sully his hands with that sort of behaviour.
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Not even Communism can sully the Caribbean or dim the tropical sunshine.
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You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour.
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I will not allow you to sully your mind with such filth.
8
Take your hands, sir, from my shoulder, lest the touch sully you.
9
French cinema is seen as too serious to sully itself with recent politics.
10
Seven times I allowed that man to sully me... seven times.
11
Do not sully her memory or her mother's by engaging in any violence.
12
Bafta may also sully its record as Oscar-tipster in the best supporting categories.
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I didn't want to sully the memory of her visit to the island.
14
Such delays will send investment capital fleeing and sully Canada's reputation, he warned.
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But Magua is pledged not to sully the lilies of France.
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Yet some suspicious appearances are found to sully the theological fame of Anthemius.
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