Sul·ly v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sullied p. pr. & vb. n. Sullying ]  To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
    Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.   --Roscommon.
    No spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity.   --Atterbury.


 sullied
      adj : especially of reputation; "the senator's seriously damaged
            reputation"; "a flyblown reputation"; "a tarnished
            reputation"; "inherited a spotted name" [syn: besmirched,
             damaged, flyblown, spotted, stained, tainted,
             tarnished]


 sullied
      See sully