| A thing so cheap, so tacky, so sordid that I scarcely dare sully these pages with an account of it. |
| This is a cautionary tale about what happens when you allow innuendo to sully your life. |
| Please publish this letter as a retraction, and in the future be wary of those who might try to sully my good name. |
| None of what's said above is meant to sully the good names of my graduate programs, advisors, colleagues, or students. |
| Don't even imagine spilling a fleck of gravy on it, and it seems a shame to sully that highly polished cutlery with messy old food. |
| Because Gauguin simplified and archaized the figures, he did not sully the dignity of the four Arlesian women arrayed as if in ritual procession. |
