Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone.
Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon.
Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically.
United States painter (born in England) of portraits and historical scenes (1783-1872)
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Examples for "stain "
1 The stain of slavery exists in the First of the Blacks himself.
2 Its repercussions, of course, have spread like a stain across the family.
3 Better to let Patji claim rivals than to directly stain one's hands.
4 One of our early presidents called it our great and foul stain .
5 But if that was the case, why had he left this stain ?
1 According to him, this was a targeted attack to tarnish his character.
2 The sweat and strife of some careers must tarnish the brightest lustre.
3 But some worry this attention will tarnish the culture, writes Baz Macdonald.
4 Wouldn't want to tarnish my image by looking like a good guy.
5 The other tarnish on the clear mirror was of a graver kind.
1 Are the diplomatic corps less maculate than in the days of Grenville Murray?
2 I can make out its long-fingered wings and tightly ruddering tail, its maculate underside.
3 His wasted palms rested on knees that resembled bones draped with maculate clothing; his sere head fell forward.
4 To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details....
5 In the maculate atmosphere of flat wine and stale cologne he had a sharp recurrence of the scent of pines, lifting warmly in sunny space.
Другие значения термина "sully" 1 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.
4 And Force would never sully his hands with that sort of behaviour.
5 Not even Communism can sully the Caribbean or dim the tropical sunshine.
6 You make me a liar by such language: you sully my honour.
7 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.
13 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.
15 But Magua is pledged not to sully the lilies of France.
16 Yet some suspicious appearances are found to sully the theological fame of Anthemius.
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