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How to use sullied in a sentence

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His explosive temper not only caused an opposing player's arm to be broken, it sullied the reputation of one of his players.
I am not going to stand idly back to watch any of the democratic ideals that made Canada the envy of nations be injured, sullied or disgraced.
Some people presumably didn't want their quest for pure money sullied with dirty ideology.
If anyone thinks I have merely sullied the name of a so-called great writer, they are mistaken.
She can deny that human rights, presumption of innocence and just plain common decency are being sullied.
The pure white cotton she wore was sullied and ragged from thorns of cactus and scrambling over hard rocks of the narrow pass.
Our Anthony has a picture of Britain in his head that must on no account be sullied by contact with grubby reality.
Tasmanians know how important tourism is to their economy and don't like seeing the island image sullied by a bunch of ferals.
He sullied his already dwindling credibility with an exhibition of arrogance, bad taste, and egotism that made for queasy viewing.
What is really a shame is that his good name has been sullied by people who have not bothered to read what he wrote.
Uncaring, the piercing gusts of air sullied his racked frame, and his head pounded with fatigue.
One bright spot is the marked decline in the gangland-style killings that sullied Macau's image in the period immediately before the handover.
Her name will, quite rightly, be besmirched and sullied until all eternity.
The dragonfly is a sleek, graceful insect that doesn't deserve to have its reputation sullied by being associated with this pile of offal.
It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew.
You have very gravely sullied her name and unforgivably insulted her, by implying that she only won the scholarship because of who her father is.
Improprieties have sullied its reputation and overshadowed its many accomplishments, and constitute a serious political issue for the government.
I too raise my voice, I beseech, beg and implore that no one draw near to this sacred table with a sullied and corrupt conscience.
Unfortunately, the sullied reputation of its founder may make it tough to get off the ground.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They say that her reputation has been sullied, that I ill-treat her, and that she ought not to submit to it.
The child has been concealed, that she might not be sullied by the looks of such creatures as you.
Never let your reputation in this respect be sullied by so much as a breath.
No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.
She would not allow her mind to be sullied by such a suspicion.
Was it well that a deity should be sullied by a mortal's wound?
Even the memory of his grand passion was now corrupted, sullied, debased.
His ambitions were already sullied by many unworthy and deadening ideas.
His nether garment was a yellow nankeen, closely fitted to the shape, and tied at his bunches of knees by large knots of white ribbon, a good deal sullied by use.
That woman, who has so abused your long-suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.
He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied.
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