sully
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Macron almost immediately responded on X: "Shame on those who wanted to sully his memory," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
There are countertop devices that promise to scramble your egg inside the shell, so you never have to sully a whisk again.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2025
It threatened to sully her white dress flecked with rainbows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2024
He feels waiting any longer would just sully his father’s name.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2024
He noticed it also and very carefully moved away so that my jacket would not sully his.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
"This summit does not dignify anyone, rather, it dirties them, it sullies them. We Latin Americans have to defend ourselves so that they respect us."
From Reuters ● May 19, 2022
Trivializing the suffering of those targeted for extermination by comparing it to modern-day difficulties sullies the memory of the victims.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Since I began working on the history of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, every time crude oil sullies U.S. waters and beaches, I wait for the same sad, misleading official narrative.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2021
No such fluff sullies the lexicon of Burke’s latest character.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 16, 2019
You know the dark stain that sullies my past, and the fault of my nature,--ambition.
From Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Plenty of Kobe Bryant fans began griping online about the Heat’s tactics, which they said sullied a legendary evening.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
But he has been tipped to potentially replace Thomas Tuchel as England boss after the World Cup and will not want his reputation sullied by a poor end to the season.
From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026
It has a history of bad actors who have sullied crypto’s good name by issuing stablecoins that turned out not to be stable.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
The incident — which revived memories of a massive 3-million-gallon spill almost 50 years earlier — sullied some of the state’s most pristine beaches and a rare stretch of undeveloped coastline.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2024
Finally, it lay in a puff of sullied feathers.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
As far back as the 1930s, during the infamous “Bodyline” tour, English bowlers were accused of sullying the game by aiming balls directly at Australian batsmen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
"Without those answers any sceptical person would be worried that there might be some financial wrongdoing taking place and this would risk sullying the reputation of the Royal family," she added.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2025
But that doesn’t mean this team’s shortcomings aren’t sullying the summer for its most ardent supporters.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
She once paid $110,000 at a fund-raising auction to buy the right to hold a party there — in large part to prevent nonroyals from sullying what she considered her ancestral home.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
Worse, he is sullying the only thing her family owns: its good name.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
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