| 词汇 | sullied |
| 释义 | sullied past simple and past participle ofsully sully verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈsʌl.i/ us /ˈsʌl.i/ to spoil something that is pure or someone's perfect reputation: 玷污;败坏 His reputation, he said, had been unfairly sullied by half-truths and innuendos.他说他的声誉已经被一些半真半假的报道和含沙射影的说法给抹黑了。 to make something dirty: 弄脏 No speck of dirt had ever sullied his hands.他的双手总是干干净净的。 Damaging reputation anti-defamation aspersion besmirch black mark blacken blot defame demonize dog drag someone's name through the mire/mudidiom give a dog a bad nameidiom scurrilously self-immolation show someone in a bad lightidiom slander slanderer slur smear stab stain You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Making things dirty & untidy Examples of sulliedsullied In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. He accuses this type of mysticism of being antinomian, tainted by foreign ideas, and sullied by spiritual ecstasies of divine infusion and union (al-hulul wa-l-ittihad). Ultimately, the act of practicing aestheticism in public sullied it. Consumption constantly engages with these bundled material propensities of objects, though mostly sullied artefacts, industrially produced goods, not natural bundles of innocent properties. The decision to interview the patients at home was taken to avoid the influences and constraints of the clinical environment which may have sullied the data. Not least, it would finally purify this sordid and sullied project. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They want to cut out the practices which sullied and distorted shipping before the war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would have sullied the atmosphere and made for great difficulties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole outlook from these houses is sullied by soot besmirched in a soot-laden atmosphere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have sullied compassion and scoffed at what they call the "dependency culture". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have sullied the legacy of their own forebears and betrayed the trust of their own supporters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Polite rivalry and sporting ideals have now been sullied by athletes' intense efforts to win and distinguish themselves. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I regret that the atmosphere should have been sullied in this way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children must not be sullied by contact with their fellow subjects. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do, of course, understand that it has already been sullied by parts of my previous amendments which he has also been unable to accept. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To have that sport, which can achieve so much for people, sullied by hooligans gives me intense pain. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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