Definitions for Sully

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Sully sul·ly

Spelling: [suhl-ee]

IPA: /ˈsʌl i/

Sully is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Sully (llsuy).

Definitions for Sully

noun

1. Obsolete. a stain; soil.
2. Maximilien de Béthune [mak-see-mee-lyan duh bey-tyn] /mak si miˈlyɛ̃ də beɪˈtün/ (Show IPA), Duc de, 1560–1641, French statesman.
3. Thomas, 1783–1872, U.S. painter, born in England.

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 Sully

First recorded in 1585-95; origin uncertain

Examples for Sully

sully is downright exuberant at Biden's performance tonight.

By the following May events proved the accuracy of sully's judgment.

Mr Clayton had taught me wisdom, which his own bad conduct could not sully or affect.

I begin to observe that it sounds as if sully is in microcosm what Newman himself…but that is as far as I get.

Signals were exchanged, and our ship, which was then well off the land, ran in and spoke the sully.

"Nothing at all, sire," says sully, as calm as his master was excited.

sully suspended the preparations for the coronation, and sought the Queen.

The sully people catalogue a variety of reactions to today's job numbers.

But he was also showing a gritty and sully city in a beautiful way.

sully decides to face the truth of what his negligence has sown.