Definitions for sullies

sullies sul·ly

Spelling: [suhl-ee]
IPA: /ˈsʌl i/

Sullies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in sullies (eillssu).

Definitions for sullies

noun

  1. Obsolete. a stain; soil.

verb (used with object)

  1. to soil, stain, or tarnish.
  2. to mar the purity or luster of; defile:

verb (used without object)

  1. to become sullied, soiled, or tarnished.

Origin of sullies

First recorded in 1585-95; origin uncertain

Examples for sullies

That it is which sullies the honor of your name much more than the storm has injured your cloak!

I hear her husband left her well to do; And as for that small blot that sullies her 'Twill fade when covered by thy name.

People high up in authority may deny this, but he who denies it sullies the truth.

This act, a bar-sinister in the biography of Gorges, sullies his escutcheon at the outset.

Their shifts and their sullies throughout the blood did stain.

Sometimes these passions plunge us into a turbulent joy, and he who gives way to such, sullies the air with brutish laughter.

He resisted the most powerful temptations, and there is no recorded act which sullies his memory.

Word Value for sullies
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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